Synthesis and Photovoltaic Effect of Electron-Withdrawing Units for Low Band Gap Conjugated Polymers Bearing Bi(thienylenevinylene) Side Chains

Polymers

Yichun Peng¹  Yufei Wang²  Yangjun Xia²  Xu Wang²  Ningning Wang²  Chunyan Yang²  Jianfeng Li²  Zezhou Liang²  Junfeng Tong² 

[1] School of Civil Engineering, Lanzhou Institute of Technology, Lanzhou 730070, China;School of Materials and Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China;

关键词: polymer solar cells;    low band gap;    bi(thienylenevinylene);    benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene;    photovoltaic property;   

DOI  :  10.3390/polym11091461

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

A novel (E)-5-(2-(5-alkylthiothiophen-2-yl)vinyl)thien-2-yl (TVT)-comprising benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene (BDT) derivative (BDT-TVT) was designed and synthetized to compose two donor-acceptor (D-A) typed copolymers (PBDT-TVT-ID and PBDT-TVT-DTNT) with the electron-withdrawing unit isoindigo (ID) and naphtho[1,2-c:5,6-c′]bis[1,2,5]thiadiazole (NT), respectively. PBDT-TVT-ID and PBDT-TVT-DTNT showed good thermal stability (360 °C), an absorption spectrum from 300 nm to 760 nm and a relatively low lying energy level of Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital (E_HOMO) (−5.36 to −5.45 eV), which could obtain a large open-circuit voltage (V_oc) from photovoltaic devices with PBDT-TVT-ID or PBDT-TVT-DTNT. The photovoltaic devices with ITO/PFN/polymers: PC₇₁BM/MoO₃/Ag structure were assembled and exhibited a good photovoltaic performance with a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 4.09% (PBDT-TVT-ID) and 5.44% (PBDT-TVT-DTNT), respectively. The best PCE of a PBDT-TVT-DTNT/PC₇₁BM-based device mainly originated from its wider absorption, higher hole mobility and favorable photoactive layer morphology.

【 授权许可】

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