- Title
- Employing PCBTDPP as an efficient donor polymer for high performance ternary polymer solar cells
- Creator
- Xu, Binrui; Saianand, Gopalan; Roy, V. A. L.; Qiao, Qiquan; Reza, Khan Mamun; Kang, Shin-Won
- Relation
- Polymers Vol. 11, Issue 9, no. 1423
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym11091423
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- A compatible low-bandgap donor polymer (poly[N-90-heptadecanyl-2,7carbazole-alt- 3,6-bis(thiophen-5-yl)-2,5-dioctyl-2,5-dihydropyrrolo[3,4]pyrrole-1,4-dione], PCBTDPP) was judicially introduced into the archetypal poly(3-hexylthiophene):[6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (P3HT:PC61BM) photoactive system to fabricate highly efficient ternary based bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells (PSCs). The PCBTDPP ternary-based PSC with optimal loading (0.2 wt.%) displayed outstanding performance with a champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 5.28% as compared to the PCE (4.67%) for P3HT:PC61BM-based PSC (reference). The improved PCE for PCBTDPP ternary-based PSC can be mainly attributed to the incorporation of PCBTDPP into P3HT:PC61BM that beneficially improved the optical, morphological, electronic, and photovoltaic (PV) performance. This work instills a rational strategy for identifying components (donor/acceptor (D/A) molecules) with complementary beneficial properties toward fabricating efficient ternary PSCs.
- Subject
- polymer solar cells; low-bandgap; ternary; PCBTDPP
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1417304
- Identifier
- uon:37189
- Identifier
- ISSN:2073-4360
- Rights
- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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