A diketopyrrolopyrrole molecule end-capped with a furan-2-carboxylate moiety: the planarity of molecular geometry and photovoltaic properties
作者:Lei Fu、Weifei Fu、Pei Cheng、Zhixin Xie、Congcheng Fan、Minmin Shi、Jun Ling、Jianhui Hou、Xiaowei Zhan、Hongzheng Chen
DOI:10.1039/c3ta13534a
日期:——
We designed and synthesized a diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) molecule with a fully-planar molecular geometry, 3,6-bis5-[(ethylfuran-2-carboxylate)-2-yl]thiophene-2-yl}-2,5-bis(2-ethylhexyl)pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-1,4-dione (DPP(CF)2), for solution-processable organic solar cells (OSCs). It is theoretically calculated that the dihedral angles between the two furan-2-carboxylate end-groups and the DPP core are both only 0.56°. Due to this negligible steric distortion, the molecular conformation of DPP(CF)2 can be considered fully coplanar, leading to a higher crystallinity for the DPP(CF)2 film. As a result, the hole mobility of DPP(CF)2 is one order of magnitude higher than that of the DPP derivative with thiophene-2-carboxylate as the end-group (DPP(CT)2). DPP(CF)2 exhibits both a low optical band gap (Eg) of 1.60 eV and a low-lying highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy level of −5.33 eV, implying that DPP(CF)2 is a promising electron donor for OSCs. OSCs with DPP(CF)2 or DPP(CT)2 as the electron donor and [6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM) as the electron acceptor were fabricated. It is found that the DPP(CF)2-based devices exhibit much better photovoltaic performance than the DPP(CT)2-based devices, with the highest power conversion efficiency of 5.37% and a short-circuit current density of 11.4 mA cm−2. This phenomenon can be ascribed to the superior charge-transporting ability of DPP(CF)2 due to its fully-planar molecular geometry.
我们设计并合成了一种具有全平面分子几何结构的二吡咯并吡咯(DPP)分子,即3,6-双5-[(乙基呋喃-2-羧酸酯)-2-基]噻吩-2-基}-2,5-双(2-乙基己基)吡咯并[3,4-c]吡咯-1,4-二酮(DPP(CF)2),用于溶液加工有机太阳能电池(OSC)。根据理论计算,两个呋喃-2-羧酸酯端基与DPP核心之间的二面角仅为0.56°。由于这种可忽略的位错畸变,DPP(CF)2的分子构象可视为完全共面,从而提高了DPP(CF)2薄膜的结晶度。因此,DPP(CF)2的空穴迁移率比以噻吩-2-羧酸酯为端基的DPP衍生物(DPP(CT)2)高一个数量级。DPP(CF)2具有1.60 eV的低光带隙(Eg)和-5.33 eV的低能级最高占分子轨道(HOMO),这意味着DPP(CF)2是OSC的有前景的电子给体。我们制造了以DPP(CF)