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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 41, Issue 21, Pages 13166-13174Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7nj03061d
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2014CB643500]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [51173065]
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Two small molecular cathode interlayer (CIL) materials with pyridinium ion or quaternary ammonium ion terminated 1,2,3-trihexyloxybenzene as pendant polar groups and anthrathiadiazole-4,11-dione (ATD) as a conjugated backbone, namely PBATD and TBATD, were synthesized for PCDTBT:PC71BM (PCDTBT:poly[poly[N-9'-heptadecanyl-2,7-carbazole-alt-5,5-(4',7'-di-2-thienyl-2',1',3'-benzothiadiazole)]]; PC71BM:[6,6]-phenyl C-71-butyric acid methyl ester) based polymer solar cells (PSCs). A dramatic improvement in the device performance was observed when the CILs were inserted between the active layer and the Al electrode. Especially, the device modified by quaternary ammonium ion terminated TBATD exhibits a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 7.26%, which was 1.4 times that of the device with bare Al as the cathode, due to the simultaneously enhanced open-circuit voltage (V-oc), short-circuit current density (J(sc)) and fill factor (FF). Importantly, the V-oc (0.93 V) achieved for the TBATD modified device was among the top values that used the same kind of active layer in conventional single-junction PSCs so far. It demonstrated that the CILs presented in this study may be a promising candidate for applications in high performance PSCs.
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