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Electron-Deficient N‑Alkyloyl Derivatives of Thieno[3,4‑c]pyrrole-4,6-dione Yield Efficient Polymer Solar Cells with Open-Circuit Voltages > 1 V
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posted on 2014-05-13, 00:00 authored by Julien Warnan, Clément Cabanetos, Romain Bude, Abdulrahman El Labban, Liang Li, Pierre M. BeaujugePoly(benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene–thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione) (PBDTTPD) polymer donors yield
some of the highest open-circuit voltages (VOC, ca. 0.9 V) and fill factors (FF, ca. 70%) in conventional
bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells with PCBM acceptors. Recent
work has shown that the incorporation of ring substituents into the
side chains of the BDT motifs in PBDTTPD can induce subtle variations
in material properties, resulting in an increase of the BHJ device VOC to ∼1 V. In this contribution, we
report on the synthesis of N-alkyloyl-substituted
TPD motifs (TPD(CO)) and show that the electron-deficient motifs
can further lower both the polymer LUMO and HOMO levels, yielding
device VOC > 1 V (up to ca. 1.1 V)
in
BHJ solar cells with PCBM. Despite the high VOC achieved (i.e., low polymer HOMO), BHJ devices cast from
TPD(CO)-based polymer donors can reach power conversion efficiencies
(PCEs) of up to 6.7%, making these promising systems for use in the
high-band-gap cell of tandem solar cells.