Effect of the Molecular Configuration of Perylene Diimide Acceptors on Charge Transfer and Device Performance

Qu, Jianfei; Mu, Zhao; Lai, Hanjian; Xie, Mo; Liu, Longzhu; Lu, Wei; Chen, Wei; He, Feng

doi:10.1021/acsaem.7b00277

Effect of the Molecular Configuration of Perylene Diimide Acceptors on Charge Transfer and Device Performance

Journal Article · Wed Jan 24 23:00:00 EST 2018 · ACS Applied Energy Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.7b00277· OSTI ID:1440754

Qu, Jianfei ^[1]; Mu, Zhao ^[1]; Lai, Hanjian ^[1]; Xie, Mo ^[1]; Liu, Longzhu ^[2]; ^[1]; ^[3]; ^[1]

Southern Univ. of Science and Technology, Shenzhen (People's Republic of China)
Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); The Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)

Three perylene diimides (PDI)-based small molecules, T2-SePDI2, T3B-SePDI3, and T4B-SePDI4, with different molecular configurations are synthesized. Due to a large steric hindrance, the molecular configuration of T3B-SePDI3 is the most distorted, followed by T4BSePDI4, while T2-SePDI2 shows the smallest steric hindrance. Inverted bulk heterojunction solar cells based on T3B-SePDI3 and PBDB-T show the highest power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 5.82% with an open-circuit voltage of 0.98 V, a high short-circuit current density of 10.52 mA/cm2, and a fill factor of 56.31%. The PCEs of the T2-SePDI2- and T4B-SePDI4- based devices are 4.10% and 5.10%, respectively. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that the molecular configuration of the PDI-based small molecule acceptor is critical and that increasing the steric hindrance is helpful in suppressing aggregation and improving device performance.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Natural Science Foundation of China

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1440754

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Energy Materials, Journal Name: ACS Applied Energy Materials Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 1; ISSN 2574-0962

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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