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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 30, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202001560
Keywords
conducting polymers; conjugated polymers; doping; molecular electronics; solar cells
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- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning [NRF-2018R1A1A1A05018520]
- Priority Research Centers Program - NRF [2019R1A6A1A11051471]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [21A20130000014] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Developing electrical organic conductors is challenging because of the difficulties involved in generating free charge carriers through chemical doping. To devise a novel doping platform, the doping capabilities of four designed conjugated polymers (CPs) are quantitatively characterized using an AC Hall-effect device. The resulting carrier density is related to the degree of electronic coupling between the CP repeating unit and 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4-TCNQ), and doped PIDF-BT provides an outstanding electrical conductivity, exceeding 210 S cm(-1), mainly due to the doping-assisted facile carrier generation and relatively fast carrier mobility. In addition, it is noted that a slight increment in the electron-withdrawing ability of the repeating unit in each CP diminishes electronic coupling with F4-TCNQ, and severely deteriorates the doping efficiency including the alteration of operating doping mechanism for the CPs. Furthermore, when PIDF-BT with high doping capability is applied to the hole transporting layer, with F4-TCNQ as the interfacial doping layer at the interface with perovskite, the power conversion efficiency of the perovskite solar cell improves significantly, from 17.4% to over 20%, owing to the ameliorated charge-collection efficiency. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Kelvin probe analyses verify that the improved solar cell performance originates from the increase in the built-in potential because of the generation of electric dipole layer.
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