Effect of core modification in star-shaped donor-acceptor oligomers on physical properties and photovoltaic performance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey A. Ponomarenko ◽  
Yuriy N. Luponosov ◽  
Alexander N. Solodukhin ◽  
Dmitry Y. Paraschuk ◽  
Vasiliy A. Trukhanov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Donor Acceptor

Synthesis and photovoltaic performance of donor-acceptor polymers containing benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene with thienyl substituents

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (12) ◽  
pp. 2622-2630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prakash Sista ◽  
Ruvini S. Kularatne ◽  
Michael E. Mulholland ◽  
Mitchell Wilson ◽  
Natalie Holmes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Donor Acceptor

scholarly journals All-small-molecule organic solar cells with over 14% efficiency by optimizing hierarchical morphologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruimin Zhou ◽  
Zhaoyan Jiang ◽  
Chen Yang ◽  
Jianwei Yu ◽  
Jirui Feng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Active Layers ◽  
Donor Acceptor

AbstractThe high efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells (OSCs) normally require optimized morphology in their bulk heterojunction active layers. Herein, a small-molecule donor is designed and synthesized, and single-crystal structural analyses reveal its explicit molecular planarity and compact intermolecular packing. A promising narrow bandgap small-molecule with absorption edge of more than 930 nm along with our home-designed small molecule is selected as electron acceptors. To the best of our knowledge, the binary all-small-molecule OSCs achieve the highest efficiency of 14.34% by optimizing their hierarchical morphologies, in which the donor or acceptor rich domains with size up to ca. 70 nm, and the donor crystals of tens of nanometers, together with the donor-acceptor blending, are proved coexisting in the hierarchical large domain. All-small-molecule photovoltaic system shows its promising for high performance OSCs, and our study is likely to lead to insights in relations between bulk heterojunction structure and photovoltaic performance.

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

Polymers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianfeng Li ◽  
Yufei Wang ◽  
Ningning Wang ◽  
Zezhou Liang ◽  
Xu Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conjugated Polymers ◽  
Open Circuit Voltage ◽  
Photovoltaic Effect ◽  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Hole Mobility ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Photovoltaic Devices ◽  
Good Thermal Stability ◽  
Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital ◽  
Donor Acceptor

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 (EHOMO) (−5.36 to –5.45 eV), which could obtain a large open-circuit voltage (Voc) 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.

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