Importance of varying electron-accepting moieties in regular conjugated terpolymers for use in polymer solar cells

Hyung Jong Kim; Gi Eun Park; Dae Hee Lee; Min Ju Cho; Dong Hoon Choi

doi:10.1016/j.orgel.2016.08.011

Importance of varying electron-accepting moieties in regular conjugated terpolymers for use in polymer solar cells

Hyung Jong Kim, Gi Eun Park, Dae Hee Lee, Min Ju Cho, Dong Hoon Choi

Department of Chemistry

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Abstract

Three A₁-D-A₂-D regular conjugated terpolymers containing diketopyrrolopyrrole, isoindigo, or thienoisoindigo moieties were synthesized. Each terpolymer with the combination of two different acceptors and thiophene as common donor displayed strong absorption from 500 nm to the near-IR region as well as different molecular energy levels. Among three terpolymers, bulk heterojunction polymer solar cell made of the terpolymer containing diketopyrrolopyrrole, isoindigo, and thiophene moieties and phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester showed the highest power conversion efficiency of 6.95% due to its appropriate internal morphology and the high open circuit voltage conferred by the relatively low-lying highest occupied molecular orbital level of the polymer.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	256-263
Number of pages	8
Journal	Organic Electronics
Volume	38
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2016.08.011
Publication status	Published - 2016 Nov 1

Keywords

Diketopyrrolopyrrole
Isoindigo
Polymer solar cells
Terpolymer
Thienoisoindigo

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Biomaterials
Chemistry(all)
Condensed Matter Physics
Materials Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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