Effect of acceptor strength in new acceptor donor acceptor-type molecules on their miscibility with donor polymers for bulk-heterojunction fullerene-free solar cells
- Authors
- Park, Seo Yeon; Park, Gi Eun; Choi, Suna; Lee, Ji Hyung; Lee, Dae Hee; Cho, Min Ju; Choi, Dong Hoon
- Issue Date
- 11월-2017
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCI LTD
- Keywords
- Fullerene-free solar cells; Spirobifluorene; Accepting units; Polarity; Miscibility
- Citation
- DYES AND PIGMENTS, v.146, pp.226 - 233
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- Journal Title
- DYES AND PIGMENTS
- Volume
- 146
- Start Page
- 226
- End Page
- 233
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/81723
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.dyepig.2017.07.010
- ISSN
- 0143-7208
- Abstract
- We designed and synthesized two kinds of spirobifluorene (SP)-based acceptor-donor-acceptor (A-D-A)-type acceptor materials, denoted by SP-IC and SP-TCF, which have an A-D-A structure consisting of a 3D tetrathienospirobifluorene donor core and 2-(3-oxo-2,3-dihydro-1H-indeii-1-ylidene)malononitrile (IC) or 2-(3-cyano-4,5,5-trimethylfuran-2(5H)-ylidene)malononitrile (TCF) acceptors as terminal units, respectively. Their LUMO levels (-3.91 eV for SP-IC and -3.97 eV for SP-TCF) are suitable as n-type molecules for PTB7-Th-based polymer solar cells. However, their morphologies in blend films with a conjugated donor polymer, Poly([2,6 '-4,8-di(5-ethylhexylthienyl)benzo[1,2-b;3,3-b]dithiophene]{3-fluoro-2[(2-ethylhexyl)carbonyl]thieno[3,4-b]thiophenediy1}) (PTB7-Th), exhibited considerable differences. The PTB7-Th:SP-IC blend film exhibited a better-defined nanophase-separated morphology than PTB7-Th:SP-TCF blend film. The corresponding bulk heterojunction polymer solar cell based on PTB7-Th:SP-IC showed four times higher power conversion efficiency (PCE = 4.50%) than that of PTB7-Th:SP-TCF. The higher PCE was well explained by investigating the morphology, which was affected by the surface energy of the acceptor molecules at the donor-acceptor interface. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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