Open-Circuit Voltage Modulations on All-Polymer Solar Cells by Side Chain Engineering on 4,8-Di(thiophen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene-Based Donor PolymersShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: ACS Applied Energy Materials, E-ISSN 2574-0962, Vol. 1, no 6, p. 2918-2926Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
In recent years, all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs), incorporating active layers based on blends of electron-donor (D) and acceptor (A) polymers, have drawn attention because of the advantages they hold in the flexibility of choosing the D:A combinations to modulate their energy levels and to improve their overall open-circuit voltages (V-oc)) and power conversion efficiencies (PCE)s. V-oc is one of the key parameters for the determination of the PCEs of PSCs. In this work, we synthesized six donor polymers with three different side chains appended to the 4,8-di(thiophen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene (BDT) units. By substituting carbon with sulfur and silicon atoms at the 5-position of the thiophenes attached to the BDT units, the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) levels of the donor polymers could be successfully lowered. As anticipated, the V-oc values of the resulting all-PSCs increased along with the lowering of the HOMO levels of the donor polymers. Among the six allPSCs, the PBDT-BDD:PNDI-T10 all-PSC realized a balance between the photovoltage and photocurrent, where a decent PCE of 5.6% was obtained with a V-oc of 0.9 V-oc and a photocurrent of 10.5 mA/cm(2).
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
AMER CHEMICAL SOC , 2018. Vol. 1, no 6, p. 2918-2926
Keywords [en]
acceptor polymers; all-polymer solar cells; 4, 8-di(thiophen-2-yl)benzo[1, 2-b:4, 5-b ']dithiophene; donor polymers; open-circuit voltage; organic photovoltaics; side chain engineering
National Category
Polymer Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-209817DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.8b00562ISI: 000458705800066Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85064765330OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-209817DiVA, id: diva2:1913511
Note
Funding Agencies|Swedish Research Council; Swedish Research Council Formas; Chalmers Area of Advance Energy and Graphene Center; Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; National Natural Science Foundation of China [21728401]; International Science Programme (ISP), Uppsala University, Sweden; Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation through a Wallenberg Scholar grant; European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) [607585]
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