Impact of highly crystalline, isoindigo-based small-molecular additives for enhancing the performance of all-polymer solar cells

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We have developed a simple yet versatile approach for enhancing the performance of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) using a highly crystalline small-molecular additive, 6,6 '-dithiopheneisoindigo (DTI). The DTI additive in a blend of PTB7-Th donor and P(NDI2HD-T) acceptor enhances the power conversion efficiency of all-PSCs from 5.9 to 6.8%. Based on the analyses of the electrical, optical, and structural properties of all-PSCs, it is suggested that DTI additives promote tighter pi-pi packing and larger sizes of crystalline domains. Such morphological changes of the PTB7-Th: P(NDI2HD-T) blend films upon the addition of DTI enhance the exciton lifetime and diffusion length, which are proved by static and femtosecond-transient absorption spectroscopies and time-resolved photoluminescence. As a result of improved exciton dissociation probability and charge transport, the short-circuit current density of all-PSCs is greatly increased. Importantly, we also show that the DTI additive can be applied to other all-PSC systems with different polymer donors and naphthalene diimide (NDI)-based polymer acceptors, where the efficiencies of all-PSCs are enhanced by 10-20%.
Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
Issue Date
2017-10
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FULLERENE-POLYMER; ELECTRON-MOBILITY; BLEND MORPHOLOGY; ACCEPTOR; ORIENTATION; AGGREGATION; SOLVENT; PACKING; WEIGHT

Citation

JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, v.5, no.40, pp.21291 - 21299

ISSN
2050-7488
DOI
10.1039/c7ta06939a
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/226912
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CBE-Journal Papers(저널논문)
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