A star-shaped perylene diimide electron acceptor for high-performance organic solar cells.

Lin, Yuze; Wang, Yifan; Wang, Jiayu; Hou, Jianhui; Li, Yongfang; Zhu, Daoben; Zhan, Xiaowei · Adv Mater · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A novel nonplanar star-shaped perylene diimide acceptor with a triphenylamine core (S(TPA-PDI)) is explored and applied in solution-processed organic solar cells. These solar cells exhibit an encouraging power conversion efficiency of up to 3.32%.