Modulating morphology via side-chain engineering of fused ring electron acceptors for high performance organic solar cells  

作　　者：Fuwen Zhao Dan He Jingming Xin Shuixing Dai Han Xue Li Jiang Zhixiang Wei Wei Ma Xiaowei Zhan Yongfang Li Chunru Wang 

机构地区：[1]Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences [2]State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University [3]Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University [4]National Center for Nanoscience and Technology

出　　处：《Science China Chemistry》2019年第6期790-796,共7页中国科学（化学英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (BX201700253);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M620068, 2018M630208);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21673257, 21805288);the Ministry of Science and Technology (2016YFA0200700)

摘　　要：In this work, four fused ring electron acceptors(FREAs), 2F-C5, 2F-C6, 2F-C8 and 2F-C10, are developed to investigate the effect of side-chain size on the molecular properties and photovoltaic performance of FREA systematically. The elongation of side-chains in the FREAs not only improves their solubility in the processing solvent, but also enhances their miscibility with the donor PBDB-T. It helps the FREA diffuse into the donor PBDB-T during film-formation, thus leading to the decrease in domain size and domain purity from PBDB-T:2F-C5 to PBDB-T:2F-C10 blend films in sequence. The smaller domain size affords more D/A interfaces to benefit exciton dissociation and inhibit monomolecular recombination. However, severe bimolecular recombination occurs when the domain purity decreases to a critical point. Due to the dual function of the increment of side-chain length, both short-circuit current density(J_(SC)) and fill factor(FF) of devices exhibit an evolution of first increasing then decreasing from 2F-C5, 2F-C6, 2F-C8 to 2F-C10 based OSCs. The PBDB-T:2F-C8 based OSCs get a fine balance in morphology with moderate domain size as well as high domain purity simultaneously for the least charge carrier recombination, thus achieving the highest power conversion efficiency of 12.28% with the best J_(SC)(21.27 mA cm^(-2)) and FF(71.96%).In this work, four fused ring electron acceptors(FREAs), 2F-C5, 2F-C6, 2F-C8 and 2F-C10, are developed to investigate the effect of side-chain size on the molecular properties and photovoltaic performance of FREA systematically. The elongation of side-chains in the FREAs not only improves their solubility in the processing solvent, but also enhances their miscibility with the donor PBDB-T. It helps the FREA diffuse into the donor PBDB-T during film-formation, thus leading to the decrease in domain size and domain purity from PBDB-T:2F-C5 to PBDB-T:2F-C10 blend films in sequence. The smaller domain size affords more D/A interfaces to benefit exciton dissociation and inhibit monomolecular recombination. However, severe bimolecular recombination occurs when the domain purity decreases to a critical point. Due to the dual function of the increment of side-chain length, both short-circuit current density(J_(SC)) and fill factor(FF) of devices exhibit an evolution of first increasing then decreasing from 2F-C5, 2F-C6, 2F-C8 to 2F-C10 based OSCs. The PBDB-T:2F-C8 based OSCs get a fine balance in morphology with moderate domain size as well as high domain purity simultaneously for the least charge carrier recombination, thus achieving the highest power conversion efficiency of 12.28% with the best J_(SC)(21.27 mA cm^(-2)) and FF(71.96%).

关 键 词：solar cells FUSED RING electron ACCEPTOR SIDE-CHAIN LENGTH MORPHOLOGY 

分 类 号：O6[理学—化学]