Manipulating Charge Transfer and Transport via Intermediary Electron Acceptor Channels Enables 19.3% Efficiency Organic Photovoltaics
Lingling Zhan, Shuixing Li, Yaokai Li, Rui Sun, Jie Min, Yiyao Chen, Jin Fang, Chang‐Qi Ma, Guanqing Zhou, Haiming Zhu, Lijian Zuo, Huayu Qiu, Shouchun Yin, Hongzheng Chen
Abstract
Abstract Balancing and improving the open‐circuit voltage ( V oc ) and short‐circuit current density ( J sc ) synergistically has always been the critical point for organic photovoltaics (OPVs) to achieve high efficiencies. Here, this work adopts a ternary strategy to regulate the trade‐off between V oc and J sc by combining the symmetric‐asymmetric non‐fullerene acceptors that differ at terminals and alkyl side chains to build the ternary OPV (TOPV). It is noticed that the reduced energy disorder and the enhanced luminescence efficiency of TOPV enable a mitigated energy loss and a higher V oc . Meanwhile, the third component, which is distributed at the host donor–acceptor interface, acts as the charge transport channel. The prolonged exciton lifetime, the boosted charge mobility, and the depressed charge recombination promote the TOPV to obtain an improved J sc . Finally, with synergistically improved V oc and J sc , the TOPV delivers an optimal efficiency of 19.26% (certified as 19.12%), representing one of the highest values reported so far.