TY - JOUR
T1 - Side chains and backbone structures influence on 4,7-dithien-2-yl-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole (DTBT)-based low-bandgap conjugated copolymers for organic photovoltaics
AU - Ni, Debin
AU - Yang, Dong
AU - Ma, Shuying
AU - Tu, Guoli
AU - Zhang, Jian
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements Financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51073063 and 20904057) and Open Project of State Key Laboratory for Supramolecular Structure and Materials (No. SKLSSM201129) of Jilin university are gratefully acknowledged. J. Zhang thanks the support by 100 Talents Programme of the Chinese Academy of Science.
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - Five 4,7-dithien-2-yl-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole (DTBT)-based conjugated copolymers with controlled molecular weight were synthesized to explore their optical, energy level and photovoltaic properties. By tuning the positions of hexyl side chains on DTBT unit, the DTBT-fluorene copolymers exhibited very different aggregation properties, leading to 60 nm bathochromic shift in their absorptions and the corresponding power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) value of photovoltaic cells varied from 0.38%, 0.69% to 2.47%. Different copolymerization units, fluorene, carbazole and phenothiazine were also investigated. The polymer based on phenothiazine exhibited lower PCE value due to much lower molecular weight owing to its poor solubility, although phenothiazine units were expected to be a better electron donor. Compared with the fluorene-based polymer, the carbazole-DTBT copolymer showed higher short circuit current density (J sc) and PCE value due to its better intermolecular stacking.
AB - Five 4,7-dithien-2-yl-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole (DTBT)-based conjugated copolymers with controlled molecular weight were synthesized to explore their optical, energy level and photovoltaic properties. By tuning the positions of hexyl side chains on DTBT unit, the DTBT-fluorene copolymers exhibited very different aggregation properties, leading to 60 nm bathochromic shift in their absorptions and the corresponding power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) value of photovoltaic cells varied from 0.38%, 0.69% to 2.47%. Different copolymerization units, fluorene, carbazole and phenothiazine were also investigated. The polymer based on phenothiazine exhibited lower PCE value due to much lower molecular weight owing to its poor solubility, although phenothiazine units were expected to be a better electron donor. Compared with the fluorene-based polymer, the carbazole-DTBT copolymer showed higher short circuit current density (J sc) and PCE value due to its better intermolecular stacking.
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U2 - 10.1007/s12200-013-0343-9
DO - 10.1007/s12200-013-0343-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84889641132
SN - 2095-2759
VL - 6
SP - 418
EP - 428
JO - Frontiers of Optoelectronics
JF - Frontiers of Optoelectronics
IS - 4
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