TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison among Perylene Diimide (PDI), Naphthalene Diimide (NDI), and Naphthodithiophene Diimide (NDTI) Based n-Type Polymers for All-Polymer Solar Cells Application
AU - Yang, Jing
AU - Xiao, Bo
AU - Tajima, Keisuke
AU - Nakano, Masahiro
AU - Takimiya, Kazuo
AU - Tang, Ailing
AU - Zhou, Erjun
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51473040, 51673048, and 21602040), the National Natural Science Foundation of Beijing (No. 2162045), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (QYZDB-SSW-SLH033). 2D GIWAXS experiments were performed with the approval of the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI; Proposal 2016B1875). We thank Dr. Tomoyuki Koganezawa (JASRI) for his support with the measurements
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PY - 2017/4/25
Y1 - 2017/4/25
N2 - Rylene dimides are widely used as the building blocks for n-type semiconducting polymers due to the tunable electronic properties. To elucidate their potentials as the electron acceptors in all-polymer solar cells, systematic comparisons of the properties among the derivatives are necessary. Herein, we used perylene diimide (PDI), naphthalene diimide (NDI), and naphthodithiophene diimide (NDTI) with the same alkyl chains combined with dithienothiophene (DTT) unit to obtain three polymer acceptors PPDI-DTT, PNDI-DTT, and PNDTI-DTT, respectively. Light absorption, carrier mobility, film morphology, and molecular orientation were characterized and compared. The photovoltaic devices based on PPDI-DTT, PNDI-DTT, and PNDTI-DTT achieved power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 3.49, 2.50, and 5.57%, respectively, in combination with BDDT as the donor polymer. The high performance of PNDTI-DTT was attributed to the strong absorption profile in the near-infrared (NIR) region, high and balanced electron and hole mobilities, and the preferable face-on orientation for the polymer chains in the blend films. The results indicate that NDTI is a promising building block to construct n-type photovoltaic polymers, and higher photovoltaic performance is anticipated with the further development of novel NDTI-based polymers.
AB - Rylene dimides are widely used as the building blocks for n-type semiconducting polymers due to the tunable electronic properties. To elucidate their potentials as the electron acceptors in all-polymer solar cells, systematic comparisons of the properties among the derivatives are necessary. Herein, we used perylene diimide (PDI), naphthalene diimide (NDI), and naphthodithiophene diimide (NDTI) with the same alkyl chains combined with dithienothiophene (DTT) unit to obtain three polymer acceptors PPDI-DTT, PNDI-DTT, and PNDTI-DTT, respectively. Light absorption, carrier mobility, film morphology, and molecular orientation were characterized and compared. The photovoltaic devices based on PPDI-DTT, PNDI-DTT, and PNDTI-DTT achieved power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 3.49, 2.50, and 5.57%, respectively, in combination with BDDT as the donor polymer. The high performance of PNDTI-DTT was attributed to the strong absorption profile in the near-infrared (NIR) region, high and balanced electron and hole mobilities, and the preferable face-on orientation for the polymer chains in the blend films. The results indicate that NDTI is a promising building block to construct n-type photovoltaic polymers, and higher photovoltaic performance is anticipated with the further development of novel NDTI-based polymers.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00414
DO - 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00414
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85018632977
VL - 50
SP - 3179
EP - 3185
JO - Macromolecules
JF - Macromolecules
SN - 0024-9297
IS - 8
ER -