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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 19, Issue 19, Pages 3063-3069Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200900832
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- National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow
- Royal Thai Government Scholarship
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Research relating to organic solar cells based on solution-processed, bulk heterojunction (BHJ) films has been dominated by polymeric donor materials, as they typically have better film-forming characteristics and film morphology than their small-molecule counterparts. Despite these morphological advantages, semiconducting polymers suffer from synthetic reproducibility and difficult purification procedures, which hinder their commercial viability. Here, a non-polymeric, diketopyrrolopyrrole-based donor material that can be solution processed with a fullerene acceptor to produce good quality films is reported. Thermal annealing leads to suitable phase separation and material distribution so that highly effective BHJ morphologies are obtained. The frontier orbitals of the material are well aligned with those of the fullerene acceptor, allowing efficient electron transfer and suitable open-circuit voltages, leading to power conversion efficiencies of 4.4 +/- 0.4% under AM1.5G illumination (100 mW cm(-2)). Small molecules can therefore be solution processed to form high-quality BHJ films, which may used for low-cost, flexible organic solar cells.
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