期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 10, 期 25, 页码 21481-21491出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b05231
关键词
difluorobenzoxadiazole-based polymer; pi-spacer; temperature-dependent aggregation; polymer solar cell; thick active layer
资金
- Basic Research Fund of Shenzhen City [JCYJ20160530190226226, JCYJ20160530185244662]
- Shenzhen Peacock Plan project [KQTD20140630110339343]
- Guangdong Natural Science Foundation [2015A030313900]
- South University of Science and Technology of China [FRG-SUSTC1501A-72]
High-performance polymer solar cells (PSCs) with thick active layers are essential for large-scale production. Polymer semiconductors exhibiting a temperature-dependent aggregation property offer great advantages toward this purpose. In this study, three difluorobenzoxadiazole (ffBX)-based donor polymers, PffBX-T, PffBX-TT, and PffBX-DTT, were synthesized, which contain thiophene (T), thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (TT), and dithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]thiophene (DTT) as the pi-spacers, respectively. Temperature-dependent absorption spectra reveal that the aggregation strength increases in the order of PffBX-T, PffBX-TT, and PffBX-DTT as the pi-spacer becomes larger. PffBX-TT with the intermediate aggregation strength enables well-controlled disorder-order transition in the casting process of blend film, thus leading to the best film morphology and the highest performance in PSCs. Thick-film PSCs with an average power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 8.91% and the maximum value of 9.10% are achieved using PffBX-TT:PC71BM active layer with a thickness of 250 nm. The neat film of PffBX-TT also shows a high hole mobility of 1.09 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) in organic thin-film transistors. When PffBX-DTT and PffBX-T are incorporated into PSCs utilizing PC71BM acceptor, the average PCE decreases to 6.54 and 1.33%, respectively. The performance drop mainly comes from reduced short-circuit current, as a result of nonoptimal blend film morphology caused by a less well-controlled film formation process. A similar trend was also observed in nonfullerene type thick-film PSCs using IT-4F as the electron acceptor. These results show the significance of polymer aggregation strength tuning toward optimal bulk heterojunction film morphology using ffBX-based polymer model system. The study demonstrates that adjusting pi-spacer is an effective method, in combination with other important approaches such as alkyl chain optimization, to generate high-performance thick-film PSCs which are critical for practical applications.
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