RARE EARTH CONTAINING POLYMER TERNARY COMPLEXES AND THEIR FLUORESCENT PROPERTIES

Rare earth containing fluorescence active polymer ternary complexes were synthesized and their absorption and emission properties were investigated.

Chlorinated polymerized small molecule acceptor enabling ternary all-polymer solar cells with over 16.6% efficiency

Recently,all-polymer solar cells(all-PSCs) based on polymerized small molecule acceptors(PSMAs) have achieved significant progress.Ternary blending has proven to be an effective strategy to further boost the power conversion efficiency(PCE) of the all-PSCs.Herein,a new A-DA′D-A small-molecule acceptor-based PSMA(named as PYCl-T) was designed and synthesized,which possesses similar polymer backbone with the widely used PY-IT,but with chlorine substitution on the A-end groups in the A-DA′D-A structure.PYCl-T was then employed as the third component into the PM6:PY-IT system and the ternary all-PSCs based on PM6:PY-IT:PYCl-T demonstrated a high PCE of 16.62%(certified value of 16.3%).Moreover,the PCE of 15.52% was realized in the enlarged ternary all-PSCs with effective area of 1 cm^(2),indicating the great potential in large-scale applications.Moreover,the optimized ternary blend films of PM6:PY-IT:PYCl-T show excellent thermal stability at 150 ℃.This work demonstrates that the utilization of a ternary blend system involving two well-compatible PSMA polymer acceptors is an effective strategy to boost the performance of the all-PSCs.

Improved efficiency of ternary the blend polymer solar cells by doping a narrow band gap polymer material

A series of P3HT：PC71BM polymer solar cells （PSCs） with different PIDTDTQx doping concentrations were fabricated to in- vestigate the effect of the PIDTDTQx as a complementary electron donor on the performance of PSCs. The power conversion efficiency （PCE） of the optimized ternary blend PSCs （with 2 wt% PIDTDTQx） reached 3.87%, which is 28% higher than that of the PSCs based on P3HT：PCvlBM （control cells）. The short-circuit current density （J^c） was increased to 10.20 mA/cm2 compared with the control cells. The PCE improvement could be attributed to more photon harvest and charge carrier transport by appropriate doping PIDTDTQx. The energy transfer from P3HT to PIDTDTQx was demonstrated from the 650 nm emis- sion intensity decrease and the red-shifted emission peaks from 725 nm to 737 nm along with the increase of PIDTDTQx dop- ing concentrations.

Low-Cost and High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiency Insensitive to Active-Layer Thickness

The power conversion efficiency(PCE)of polymer solar cells(PSCs)has recently increased quickly,propelling PSCs closer to large-scale commercialization.However,several critical issues,such as the cost of materials and the sensitivity of the PCE to active-layer thickness,must be addressed before industrial application can be realized on a large scale.Here,we fabricated a high-performance ternary PSC based on a low-cost polymer donor PTQ10 and an A-DA’D-A-type small molecule acceptor(SMA)2,2'-((2Z,2'Z)-((12,13-bis(2-butyloctyl)-3,9-bis(4-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl)-12,13-dihydro-[1,2,5]thiadiazolo[3,4-e]thieno[2'',3'':4',5']thieno[2',3':4,5]pyrrolo[3,2-g]thieno[2',3':4,5]thieno[3,2-b]indole-2,10-diyl)bis(methaneylylidene))bis(5,6-difluoro-3-oxo-2,3-dihydro-1H-indene-2,1-diylidene))dimalononitrile(m-TEH)with a newA-DA’D-A-type SMA 2,2'-((2Z,2'Z)-((12,13-bis(2-butyloctyl)-3,9-bis(3-(2-ethylhexyl)phenyl)-12,13-dihydro-[1,2,5]thiadiazolo[3,4-e]thieno[2'',3'':4',5']thieno[2',3':4,5]pyrrolo[3,2-g]thieno[2',3':4,5]thieno[3,2-b]indole-2,10-diyl)bis(methaneylylidene))bis(5,6-difluoro-3-oxo-2,3-dihydro-1H-indene-2,1-diylidene))dimalononitrile(m-PEH)(with phenyl outer side chains)as the third component.Benefitting from the good compatibility and the unique alignment of the energy levels between PTQ10 and the two SMAs,the ternary system showed favorable phase separation and dominant face-on orientation,exhibiting suitable film morphology and enhanced charge transport.Therefore,the optimized ternary PSCs based on PTQ10∶m-TEH∶m-PEH(1.0∶0.9∶0.3,w/w/w)demonstrated an outstanding PCE of 19.34%,which is one of the highest PCEs reported for the single junction PSCs to date.More importantly,the ternary PSCs demonstrated superior tolerance to the active-layer thickness and showed a high PCE of 18.02% with a high fill factor(FF)of 76.56% for the devices with the active-layer thickness even reaching 300 nm.These results indicate that the ternary devices based on PTQ10∶m-TEH∶m-PEH are highly promising for future large-area fabrication and commercial application of PSCs.

Efficiency enhancement of P3HT:PCBM polymer solar cells using oligomers DH4T as the third component

We assembled a ternary blend bulk heterojunction polymer solar cell(PSCs) containing P3HT(donor) and PC61BM(acceptor) incorporated with a small molecule oligomer, dihexyl-quaterthiophene(DH4T) as a third component. By optimizing the contents of DH4 T, we increased the power conversion efficiency of ternary P3HT:DH4T:PC61BM PSCs to 4.17% from 3.44% of binary P3HT:PC61BM PSCs under AM 1.5 G of 100 m W/cm2 intensity. The major improvement is from the increase of the short circuit current and fill factor that is due to the increased light absorption at short wavelength, the balanced charge carrier transportation and the enhanced hole evacuation by a DH4T-enriched layer at the anode interface. In this work, we demonstrated that the efficiency of the PSCs can be enhanced by using low-bandgap conjugated polymer and its oligomer as donors and fullerene derivatives as acceptors.