The complemental absorption behavior of donors and acceptors
in
organic solar cells (OSCs) results in the broad absorption of solar
light, contributing to the realization of high-performance OSCs. However,
the development of OSCs with narrow absorption ranges, i.e., wavelength-selective
OSCs, has made slow progress owing to their limited applications.
Here, green-light wavelength-selective OSCs, whose transmitted blue
and red light can be effectively used to promote plant growth, are
proposed. For the preparation of green-light wavelength-selective
OSCs, a practical polymer of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) is employed
as the donor and naphthobisthiadiazole-based compounds (SNTz-RD and ONTz-RD) are newly designed as the acceptors. The
electronic absorption measurements of SNTz-RD and ONTz-RD show strong absorption bands in the green-light region.
In addition, SNTz-RD and ONTz-RD possess
appropriate frontier orbital energy levels as acceptors. OSCs based
on P3HT and these acceptors show typical photovoltaic responses with
good green-light wavelength-selective factors and good power conversion
efficiencies in the green-light region. Furthermore, the P3HT:SNTz-RD blend films exhibit an improved photosynthetic rate
in the strawberry leaves compared to the conventional P3HT:[6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PC61BM) film. These
results demonstrate that the combination of P3HT and green-light wavelength-selective
acceptors can produce green-light wavelength-selective OSCs for application
in new greenhouse agrivoltaics.