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Fine Tuning of Open-Circuit Voltage by Chlorination in Thieno[3,4‑b]thiophene–Benzodithiophene Terpolymers toward Enhanced Solar Energy Conversion
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posted on 2017-06-27, 00:00 authored by Shiwei Qu, Huan Wang, Daize Mo, Pengjie Chao, Zhen Yang, Longji Li, Leilei Tian, Wei Chen, Feng HeA new family of thieno[3,4-b]thiophene–benzodithiophene
terpolymers (PBTClx) have been designed and synthesized, in which
the chlorine/fluorine content has been adjusted and optimized. As
the content of chlorine is increased in polymers, the twist angle
between the donor and acceptor is increased, which leads to a diminishment
in the planarity and conjugation. As a result, the UV–vis absorption
is continuous blue-shifted, and the band gap increases from 1.57 to
2.04 eV when the chlorinated moieties increased from 0 to 100%. The
highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) levels of those polymers
are decreased by increasing the content of chlorinated moiety, which
opens a window to constantly modify the Voc values and eventually meets a balance point for optimized solar
energy conversion. The highest power conversion efficiency of 8.31%
is obtained by using PBTCl25 as the donor and PC71BM as the acceptor in polymer solar cells (PSCs), in which
the Voc increased from 0.79 to 0.82 V
after 25% chlorinated monomer involved in copolymerization. Herein,
the chlorine replacement could be a good method to further pump the
solar conversion by increasing the open circuit voltage without reducing
other factors of the polymer solar cells.
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Fine Tuningcircuit voltagetwist angleenergy conversionpower conversion efficiencycontentthiopheneOpen-Circuit VoltagePC 71 BMbalance pointacceptorPSCUVEnhanced Solar Energy ConversionHOMOband gap increasesV oc0.82 Vpolymerchlorinated moietiesdonorPBTCl 25optimized2.04 eVV oc valueschlorine replacementchlorinated moiety
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