A weak donor/strong acceptor alternating copolymer for efficient bulk heterojunction solar cells

  • Kim, Yu Jin
  • Kim, Hyoung Nam
  • Hwang, Moon-Chan
  • Kim, Yun-Hi
  • Park, Chan Eon
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A new alternating copolymer, CO-BDT-DTBT, designed with the "weak donor/strong acceptor" strategy has been synthesized and characterized. This strategy was tested by constructing a library of polymers employing alkanoyloxy-substituted benzodithiophene (BDT) as the weak donor, and benzothiadiazole (BT) as the strong acceptor. CO-BDT-DTBT has a low HOMO energy level of -5.62 eV, and as a result a BHJ device containing CO-BDT-DTBT blended with PC71BM was found to exhibit a high V-OC of 0.88 V. These findings confirm that "weak donor/strong acceptor" polymers are a promising new class of alternating copolymers for polymer solar cell applications. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Organic solar cellsPolymer solar cellsWeak-donor unitStrong-acceptor unitConjugated polymerCONJUGATED POLYMERSBANDGAPPERFORMANCEBENZODITHIOPHENEDESIGNDIKETOPYRROLOPYRROLEMOBILITY
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A weak donor/strong acceptor alternating copolymer for efficient bulk heterojunction solar cells
저자
Kim, Yu JinKim, Hyoung NamHwang, Moon-ChanKim, Yun-HiPark, Chan Eon
DOI
10.1016/j.synthmet.2014.09.036
발행일
2014-12
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Article
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Synthetic Metals
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