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Morphology Control for Fully Printable Organic–Inorganic Bulk-heterojunction Solar Cells Based on a Ti-alkoxide and Semiconducting Polymer
Published on: January 10, 2017
Enhanced power conversion efficiencies in bulk heterojunction solar cells based on conjugated polymer with isoindigo
Changwei Wang1, Bin Zhao, Zhencai Cao
1College of Chemistry, and Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymeric Materials, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, PR China.
Abstract:
A novel conjugated side-chain polymer (PBDT-TID), based on benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene (BDT) and isoindigo (ID) moieties, was designed and synthesized. The new polymer exhibited excellent microphase separation in active layers. Bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells fabricated from PBDT-TID and PC61BM showed promising power conversion efficiencies of 5.25% and 6.51% using conventional and inverted device structures, respectively.
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