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. 2017 Oct 18;9(41):36061-36069.
doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b10059. Epub 2017 Oct 5.

A Highly Crystalline Wide-Band-Gap Conjugated Polymer toward High-Performance As-Cast Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells

Haiying Jiang  1 , Zhen Wang  1 , Lianjie Zhang  1 , Anxing Zhong  1 , Xuncheng Liu  1 , Feilong Pan  1 , Wanzhu Cai  2 , Olle Inganäs  2 , Yi Liu  3 , Junwu Chen  1 , Yong Cao  1
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A Highly Crystalline Wide-Band-Gap Conjugated Polymer toward High-Performance As-Cast Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells

Haiying Jiang et al. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. .

Abstract

A new wide-band-gap conjugated polymer PBODT was successfully synthesized that showed high crystallinity and was utilized as the active material in nonfullerene bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells (PSCs). The photovoltaic devices based on the as-cast blend films of PBODT with ITIC and IDIC acceptors showed notable power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 7.06% and 9.09%, with high open-circuit voltages of 1.00 and 0.93 V that correspond to low energy losses of 0.59 and 0.69 eV, respectively. In the case of PBODT:ITIC, lower exciton quenching efficiency and monomolecular recombination are found for devices with small driving force. On the other hand, the relatively higher driving force and suppressed monomolecular recombination for PBODT:IDIC devices are identified to be the reason for their higher short-circuit current density (Jsc) and higher PCEs. In addition, when processed with the nonchlorinated solvent 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene, a good PCE of 8.19% was still achieved for the IDIC-based device. Our work shows that such wide-band-gap polymers have great potential for the environmentally friendly fabrication of highly efficient PSCs.

Keywords: bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells; charge-transfer state; crystallinity; energy loss; nonfullerene acceptor; wide-band-gap polymer.

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