A Narrow-Bandgap n-Type Polymer with an Acceptor-Acceptor Backbone Enabling Efficient All-Polymer Solar CellsShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: Advanced Materials, ISSN 0935-9648, E-ISSN 1521-4095, Vol. 32, article id 2004183Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Narrow-bandgap polymer semiconductors are essential for advancing the development of organic solar cells. Here, a new narrow-bandgap polymer acceptor L14, featuring an acceptor-acceptor (A-A) type backbone, is synthesized by copolymerizing a dibrominated fused-ring electron acceptor (FREA) with distannylated bithiophene imide. Combining the advantages of both the FREA and the A-A polymer, L14 not only shows a narrow bandgap and high absorption coefficient, but also low-lying frontier molecular orbital (FMO) levels. Such FMO levels yield improved electron transfer character, but unexpectedly, without sacrificing open-circuit voltage (V-oc), which is attributed to a small nonradiative recombination loss (E-loss,E-nr) of 0.22 eV. Benefiting from the improved photocurrent along with the high fill factor andV(oc), an excellent efficiency of 14.3% is achieved, which is among the highest values for all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs). The results demonstrate the superiority of narrow-bandgap A-A type polymers for improving all-PSC performance and pave a way toward developing high-performance polymer acceptors for all-PSCs.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH , 2020. Vol. 32, article id 2004183
Keywords [en]
acceptor-acceptor polymers; all-polymer solar cells; narrow bandgap; nonradiative recombination loss; polymer acceptors
National Category
Polymer Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-170558DOI: 10.1002/adma.202004183ISI: 000571115400001PubMedID: 32954584OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-170558DiVA, id: diva2:1476943
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Funding Agencies|Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission [JCYJ20170413173814007, JCYJ20170818113905024, JCYJ20170817105905899, JCYJ20180504165709042]; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [21801124]; Stiftelsen for Strategisk Forskning through a Future Research Leader program [FFL18-0322]; Peiyang Scholar Program of Tianjin University; Open Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices (South China University of Technology) [2020-skllmd-11]; Center for Computational Science and Engineering of SUSTech
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