A New Benzodithiophene Based Donor-Acceptor pi-Conjugated Polymer for Organic Solar Cells
- Authors
- Reddy, Saripally Sudhaker; Aryal, Um Kanta; Jin, Hyunjung; Gokulnath, Thavamani; Rajalapati, Durga Gayathri; Kranthiraja, Kakaraparthi; Shin, Sung Tae; Jin, Sung-Ho
- Issue Date
- 2월-2020
- Publisher
- POLYMER SOC KOREA
- Keywords
- benzodithiophene based pi-conjugated polymer; octyl side chain; organic solar cell; morphology
- Citation
- MACROMOLECULAR RESEARCH, v.28, no.2, pp.179 - 183
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- MACROMOLECULAR RESEARCH
- Volume
- 28
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 179
- End Page
- 183
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/57927
- DOI
- 10.1007/s13233-020-8079-z
- ISSN
- 1598-5032
- Abstract
- A new benzodithiophene based donor-acceptor pi-conjugated polymer (P1) is designed and explored as the photoactive donor for organic solar cells (OSCs). The synthesized donor polymer, P1 displays a wide absorption profile ranging from 300-750 nm with optical band gap of 1.61 eV and moderate ionization potential of -5.30 eV. It has good solubility in non-halogenated and halogenated organic solvents. Next, we fabricated OSCs with P1 by blending with PC71BM, the pristine polymer processed from chlorobenzene showed PCE of 2.79%. Upon addition of external additive diphenyl ether to the blend showed a dramatic improvement in PCE with maximum of 5.33%. DPE tailored the active layer morphology and showed two times higher PCE than pristine films. These results clearly indicate that the new polymer has a great potentiality for enhancing efficiency upon solvent additives, which will provide new routes for the development of new class of polymers for high-performance air-stable OSCs.
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