Advanced Energy Materials
Advanced Energy Materials
4 years ago

Designing 1,5-Naphthyridine-2,6-dione-Based Conjugated Polymers for Higher Crystallinity and Enhanced Light Absorption to Achieve 9.63% Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells

Designing 1,5-Naphthyridine-2,6-dione-Based Conjugated Polymers for Higher Crystallinity and Enhanced Light Absorption to Achieve 9.63% Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells
Won Sik Yoon, Jun-Mo Park, Soo Young Park, Dong Won Kim, Min-Woo Choi
Highly crystalline conjugated polymers represent a key material for producing high-performance thick-active-layer polymer solar cells (PSCs). However, despite their potential, a limited number of crystalline polymers are used in PSCs because of the lack of highly coplanar acceptor building blocks and insufficient light absorptivity (α < 105) of most donor (D)–acceptor (A)-type polymers. This study reports a series of novel 3,7-di(thiophen-2-yl)-1,5-naphthyridine-2,6-dione (NTDT) acceptor-based conjugated polymers, PNTDT-2T, PNTDT-TT, and PNTDT-2F2T, synthesized with 2,2′-bithiophene (2T), thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (TT), and 3,3′-difluoro-2,2′-bithiophene (2F2T) donor units, respectively. PNTDT-2F2T exhibits superior polymer crystallinity and a much higher absorption coefficient than those of PNTDT-2T or PNTDT-TT because of adequate matching between highly coplanar A (NTDT) and D (2F2T) building blocks. A bulk heterojunction solar cell based on PNTDT-2F2T exhibits a power conversion efficiency of up to 9.63%, with a high short circuit current of 18.80 mA cm−2 and fill factor of 0.70, when a thick active layer (>200 nm) is used, without postfabrication hot processing. The findings demonstrate that the polymer crystallinity and absorption coefficient can be effectively controlled by selecting appropriate D and A building blocks, and that NTDT is a novel and versatile A building block for highly efficient thick-active-layer PSCs. A novel 1,5-naphthyridine-2,6-dione-based conjugated polymer is developed and applied as a donor in the active layers of efficient polymer solar cells. PNTDT-2F2T exhibits outstanding polymer crystallinity and absorption coefficient. A polymer solar cell device made using PNTDT-2F2T exhibits a high power conversion efficiency (9.63%) with a thick active layer (>200 nm).

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201701467

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