Gedefaw, Desta and Zhou, Yi and Ma, Zaifei and Genene, Zewdneh and Hellström, Stefan and Zhang, Fengling and Mammo, Wendimagegn and Inganäs, Olle and Andersson, Mats R. (2014) Conjugated polymers with polar side chains in bulk heterojunction solar cell devices. Polymer International, 63 (1). pp. 22-30. ISSN 0959-8103
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Two polymers with polar side chains, namely poly[2,7‐(9,9‐dioctylfluorene)‐alt‐5,5‐(5',8'‐di‐2‐thienyl‐(2',3'‐bis(3''‐(2‐(2‐methoxyethoxy)ethoxy)phenyl)quinoxaline))] (P1) and poly[2,7‐(9,9‐bis(2‐(2 methoxyethoxy)ethyl)fluorene)‐alt‐5,5‐(5',8'‐di‐2‐thienyl‐(2',3'‐bis(3''‐(2‐(2‐methoxyethoxy)‐ethoxy)phenyl)quinoxaline))] (P2), were synthesized for solar cell application. A series of bulk heterojunction solar cells were systematically fabricated and characterized by varying the electron‐acceptor materials, processing solvents and thickness of the active layer. The results show that P1, with a higher molecular weight and good film‐forming properties, performed better. The best device showed an open circuit voltage of 0.87 V, a short circuit current of 6.81 mA cm−2 and a power conversion efficiency of 2.74% with 1:4 polymer:[6,6]‐phenyl‐C71‐butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM[70]) mixture using o‐dichlorobenzene (o‐DCB) as processing solvent. P2 on the other hand showed a poorer performance with chlorobenzene as processing solvent, but a much improved performance was obtained using o‐DCB instead. Thus, an open circuit voltage of 0.80 V, short circuit current of 6.21 mA cm−2 and an overall power conversion efficiency of 2.22% were recorded for a polymer:PCBM[70] mixing ratio of 1:4. This is presumably due to the improvement of the morphology of the active layer using o‐DCB as processing solvent.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment (FSTE) > School of Biological and Chemical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Desta Gedefaw |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2019 22:19 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Feb 2019 22:19 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/11370 |
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