Y6 and its derivatives: molecular design and physical mechanism

Qingya Wei; Jun Yuan; Yuanping Yi; Chunfeng Zhang; Yingping Zou

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwab121

Y6 and its derivatives: molecular design and physical mechanism

Natl Sci Rev. 2021 Jul 14;8(8):nwab121. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwab121. eCollection 2021 Aug.

Authors

Qingya Wei¹, Jun Yuan¹, Yuanping Yi², Chunfeng Zhang³, Yingping Zou¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, China.
² Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
³ National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, China.

Abstract

Y6 and its derivatives have advanced the efficiency of organic solar cells to 15%-18%. This perspective reveals the device and photo physics features of Y-series based devices and proposed some guidelines for future molecular design.