Regioregular Low Bandgap Polymer with Controlled Thieno[3,4-<i>b</i>]thiophene Orientation for High-Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells
作者:Honggi Kim、Hyungjin Lee、Donghyun Seo、Youngjun Jeong、Keun Cho、Jaechol Lee、Youngu Lee
DOI:10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00632
日期:2015.4.28
The regioregular p-type copolymer PBDTTT-C-T composed of TT-BDT-TT-BDT repeating units (TT = thieno[3,4-b]thiophene, BDT = benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithoiphene) and perfectly controlled TT orientation was synthesized. The optical, thermal, and electrochemical properties of the regioregular PBDTTT-C-T were characterized and compared with the random PBDTTT-C-T without structural regioregularity. The regioregular PBDTTT-C-T showed lower optical bandgap (1.55 eV) and higher degree of crystallinity compared to the random PBDTTT-C-T. The inverted bulk heterojunction PSCs based on the regioregular PBDTTT-C-T exhibited a power conversion efficiency as high as 7.79%, which is 19% higher than the random PBDTTT-C-T-based PSCs. It was found that the improved photoabsorption and increase in charge carrier mobility due to high regioregularity of conjugated polymer backbones and effective ordering between polymer chains are the most likely reasons for enhancement of power conversion efficiency in PSCs.
由TT-BDT-TT-BDT重复单元(TT = 噻吩并[3,4-b]噻吩,BDT = 苯并[1,2-b:4,5-b′]二噻吩)组成的p型共聚物PBDTTT-C-T和完全受控的TT取向被合成。对具有结构规整性的PBDTTT-C-T的光学、热学和电化学性质进行了表征,并与无结构规整性的无规PBDTTT-C-T进行了比较。与无规PBDTTT-C-T相比,具有结构规整性的PBDTTT-C-T具有更低的带隙(1.55 eV)和更高的结晶度。基于具有结构规整性的PBDTTT-C-T的反型体异质结光伏电池的功率转换效率高达7.79%,比基于无规PBDTTT-C-T的光伏电池高19%。研究发现,共轭聚合物主链的高结构规整性和聚合物链之间的有效有序化提高了光吸收和载流子迁移率,这很可能是提高光伏电池功率转换效率的最主要原因。