Influence of backbone modification of difluoroquinoxaline-based copolymers on the interchain packing, blend morphology and photovoltaic properties of nonfullerene organic solar cells
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2019

In order to understand the influence of molecular ordering and orientation on the performance of nonfullerene (NF) solar cells, we synthesized a series of difluoroquinoxaline-based alternating copolymers: starting from poly(2,2′-bithiophene-alt-(2,3-bis(3,4-bis(octyloxy)phenyl)-6,7-difluoroquinoxaline)) (PDFQx-2T), we modified the polymeric backbone by incorporating fluorine atoms (PDFQx-2T2F) or thiophene (PDFQx-3T) or a benzene ring (PDFQx-2TB) in the bithiophene comonomeric unit. The structure modification significantly affected the photovoltaic performance with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 3.95% for PDFQx-2TB:ITIC, 4.82% for PDFQx-2T:ITIC, 4.93% for PDFQx-2T2F:ITIC and 8.13% for PDFQx-3T:ITIC. The dramatic increase in the PCE of PDFQx-3T:ITIC was attributed to improvements in the short-circuit current density (J SC ) and fill factor (FF). From the resonant soft X-ray scattering and grazing incidence X-ray scattering measurements, the PDFQx-3T polymers had well-developed, face-on oriented crystallites, allowing the formation of face-to-face alignment with the face-on ordered ITIC molecules at the interfaces. Also, the PDFQx-3T:ITIC blend films exhibited well intermixed blend morphology with smaller domain spacings. These combined features contributed to efficient charge generation with the highest exciton dissociation probability among the four different polymer:ITIC systems. In addition, dominant face-on orientation of both PDFQx-3T polymers and ITIC acceptors with a balanced crystalline coherence length ratio (CCL polymer /CCL ITIC ) (0.87, based on the out-of-plane (010) diffraction peaks of PDFQx polymers and ITIC acceptors) led to a more balanced charge mobility than other blends, explaining the highest J SC and FF in the PDFQx-3T:ITIC NF devices.

Författare

Yuxiang Li

Korea University

Xi'an University of Science and Technology

Minseok Kim

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Ziang Wu

Korea University

Changyeon Lee

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Young Woong Lee

Korea University

Jin Woo Lee

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Young Jun Lee

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Ergang Wang

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Tillämpad kemi

Bumjoon J. Kim

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Han Young Woo

Korea University

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

20507534 (eISSN)

Vol. 7 6 1681-1689

Ämneskategorier

Polymerkemi

Fysikalisk kemi

Materialkemi

DOI

10.1039/c8tc06206d

Mer information

Senast uppdaterat

2020-08-19