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Synthesis and Photovoltaic Performance of the Asymmetric Polymer of a Thiophene-Benzene Unit-contained Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)Derivative Used for Donor Material of Organic Solar Cells |
ZENG Xianghua, LI Zhanfeng, REN Jingkun, LIU Weipeng, CHEN Jinbo,WANG Xiangkun, HAO Yuying
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Key Laboratory of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Ministry of Education and Shanxi Province, College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024 |
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Abstract A novel donor material for organic solar cells — the polymer of a diketopyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole (DPP) derivative that contains thiophene-benzene asymmetric unit (namely PDPP-PT) was designed and synthesized with the aim of optimizing the photovoltaic performance of polymer solar cells. The introduction of the asymmetric structure endows the polymer with better mole-cular packing, which is beneficial to device fabrication. This novel polymer has a wide absorption window ranging from 300 nm to 900 nm and a narrow optical band gap of 1.5 eV. The corresponding solar cells featured an open-circuit voltage of 0.68 V and a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 1.51% with 260 nm thick active layer. Hence, the PDPP-PT exhibits advantages in the fabrication of thick-active-layer solar cells, and can provide a new idea for molecular design of polymer donor materials.
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Published: 10 May 2018
Online: 2018-07-06
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