Thiophene-rich fused-aromatic thienopyrazine acceptor for donor–acceptor low band-gap polymers for OTFT and polymer solar cell applications
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Mondal, RajibBecerril, Hector A.
Verploegen, Eric
Kim, Dongwook

Norton, Joseph E.
Ko, Sangwon
Miyaki, Nobuyuki
Lee, Sangjun
Toney, Michael F.
Brédas, Jean-Luc
McGehee, Michael D.
Bao, Zhenan
KAUST Grant Number
KUS-C1-015-21Date
2010Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/600011
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Thiophene enriched fused-aromatic thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine systems were designed and employed to produce low band gap polymers (Eg = 1.0-1.4 eV) when copolymerized with fluorene and cyclopentadithiophene. The copolymers are mainly investigated for organic thin film transistor and organic photovoltaic applications. Molecular packing in the thin films of these polymers was investigated using Grazing incidence X-ray Scattering. Although both fluorene and cyclopentadithiophene polymers follow similar face to face π-π stacking, the latter polymers show much smaller lamellar d-spacings due to side-chain interdigitation between the lamellae. This lead to the higher charge carrier mobilities in cyclopentadithiophene polymers (up to 0.044 cm2/V.s) compared to fluorene polymers (up to 8.1 × 10-3 cm2/V.s). Power conversion efficiency of 1.4% was achieved using fluorene copolymer in solar cells with a fullerene derivative as an acceptor. Although the cyclopentadithiophene polymers show lower band gaps with higher absorption coefficients compared to fluorene copolymers, but the power conversion efficiencies in solar cells of these polymers are low due to their low ionization potentials. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2010.Citation
Mondal R, Becerril HA, Verploegen E, Kim D, Norton JE, et al. (2010) Thiophene-rich fused-aromatic thienopyrazine acceptor for donor–acceptor low band-gap polymers for OTFT and polymer solar cell applications. J Mater Chem 20: 5823. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c0jm00903b.Sponsors
This publication was partially based on work supported by the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics, Award No KUS-C1-015-21, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). We also acknowledge support from the Global Climate and Energy Program (GCEP) and the facility usage at the Stanford Center for Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies (CPIMA). Portions of this research were carried out at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, a national user facility operated by Stanford University on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. R.M thanks Jack E. Parmer, George Margulis, and Eric Hoke for their help.Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)Journal
Journal of Materials Chemistryae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1039/c0jm00903b