Chloride side-chain engineered quinoxaline-based D-A copolymer enabling non-fullerene organic solar cells with over 16% efficiency
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- Title
- Chloride side-chain engineered quinoxaline-based D-A copolymer enabling non-fullerene organic solar cells with over 16% efficiency
- Authors
- Zhang, Qiang; Song, Xin; Singh, Ranbir; Chung, Sein; Zhou, Zhongxin; Lu, Yingyi; Zhang, Bin; Cho, Kilwon; Zhu, WeiGuo; Liu, Yu
- Date Issued
- 2022-06
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V.
- Abstract
- © 2022 Elsevier B.V.The simple halogenation strategy of side-chains has been proven an effective approach to boost the photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, two novel D-A copolymer donors, namely PBDTTS-2FQx and PBDTTS-2ClQx, comprising an alkylthiothiophene benzodithiophene (BDTTS) as donor unit, alkyl substituted thiophene as the π-bridges and an identical molecular framework but alkoxy substituted fluorobenzene (or chlorobenzene) side chains on the quinoxaline (Qx) as acceptor units, are first developed and compared in parallel. The PBDTTS-2ClQx with chlorobenzene side chains on the Qx unit exhibits a distinct redshifted absorption, suppressed energy levels, increased extinction coefficient and electron mobility compared with the counterpart PBDTTS-2FQx bearing fluorobenzene side-chains on the Qx unit. After blended with BTP-eC9 as non-fullerene acceptor (NFA), the blend film of PBDTTS-2ClQx:BTP-eC9 shows higher and balanced hole/electron mobilities, more favorable aggregation, as well as less charge carrier recombination and better molecular order. As a result, the OSCs based on PBDTTS-2ClQx:BTP-eC9 deliver an impressive power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 16.1% with simultaneously increased fundamental parameters, while the PBDTTS-2FQx-based OSCs exhibits only a PCE of 12.2%. The impressive PCE of 16.1% is by far one of the highest values for binary OSCs with the Qx-based copolymer as donors. This work reveals that chlorine side-chain engineering of the Qx-based copolymer donors is a simple and effective approach to further improve their photovoltaic performance.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/115790
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.cej.2022.135182
- ISSN
- 1385-8947
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 437, 2022-06
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