Development of a High-Performance Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymer: Synergy in Materials and Device Optimization

Mei Gao; Jegadesan Subbiah; Paul B. Geraghty; Ming Chen; Balaji Purushothaman; Xiwen Chen; Tianshi Qin; Doojin Vak; Fiona H. Scholes; Scott E. Watkins; Melissa Skidmore; Gerard J. Wilson; Andrew B. Holmes; David J. Jones; Wallace W.H. Wong

doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b01194

Development of a High-Performance Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymer: Synergy in Materials and Device Optimization

Mei Gao, Jegadesan Subbiah, Paul B. Geraghty, Ming Chen, Balaji Purushothaman, Xiwen Chen, Tianshi Qin, Doojin Vak, Fiona H. Scholes, Scott E. Watkins, Melissa Skidmore, Gerard J. Wilson, Andrew B. Holmes, David J. Jones, Wallace W.H. Wong

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The development of a high-performance polymer PBDT-BT for bulk heterojunction solar cell devices is summarized. The polymer was first synthesized by Stille polycondensation, and solar cell devices in conventional geometry were optimized through the use of a lithium salt cathode interlayer reaching 6% power conversion efficiency. Improvements were made to the synthesis of the polymer using Suzuki polycondensation giving high-molecular-weight material in the M_n = 100 kg/mol range. Further device optimization in inverted geometry gave power conversion efficiency of over 9%. The synthesis scalability as well as the batch-to-batch reproducibility of the polymer were extensively investigated.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3481-3487
Number of pages	7
Journal	Chemistry of Materials
Volume	28
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b01194
State	Published - 24 May 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Gao, M., Subbiah, J., Geraghty, P. B., Chen, M., Purushothaman, B., Chen, X., Qin, T., Vak, D., Scholes, F. H., Watkins, S. E., Skidmore, M., Wilson, G. J., Holmes, A. B., Jones, D. J., & Wong, W. W. H. (2016). Development of a High-Performance Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymer: Synergy in Materials and Device Optimization. Chemistry of Materials, 28(10), 3481-3487. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b01194

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