Fused Hexacyclic Nonfullerene Acceptor with Strong Near‐Infrared Absorption for Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells with 9.77% Efficiency

Abstract

A fused hexacyclic electron acceptor, IHIC, based on strong electron‐donating group dithienocyclopentathieno[3,2‐ b ]thiophene flanked by strong electron‐withdrawing group 1,1‐dicyanomethylene‐3‐indanone, is designed, synthesized, and applied in semitransparent organic solar cells (ST‐OSCs). IHIC exhibits strong near‐infrared absorption with extinction coefficients of up to 1.6 × 10 5 m −1 cm −1 , a narrow optical bandgap of 1.38 eV, and a high electron mobility of 2.4 × 10 −3 cm 2 V −1 s −1 . The ST‐OSCs based on blends of a narrow‐bandgap polymer donor PTB7‐Th and narrow‐bandgap IHIC acceptor exhibit a champion power conversion efficiency of 9.77% with an average visible transmittance of 36% and excellent device stability; this efficiency is much higher than any single‐junction and tandem ST‐OSCs reported in the literature.