High-efficiency single and tandem fullerene solar cells with asymmetric monofluorinated diketopyrrolopyrrole-based polymer

doi:10.1016/j.jechem.2021.04.032

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Abstract: Design and synthesis of low bandgap (LBG) polymer donors is inevitably challenging and their process-ability from a non-halogenated solvent system remains a hurdle to overcome in the area of high-performance polymer solar cells (PSCs). Due to a high aggregation tendency of LBG polymers, especially diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) -based polymers coupled with bithiophenes in the polymer backbones, their widespread adoption in non-halogenated solvent-processed PSCs has been limited. Herein, a novel LBG DPP-based polymer, called PDPP4T-1F with asymmetric arrangement of fluorine atom, has been success-fully synthesized and showed an outstanding power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 10.10% in a single-junction fullerene-based PSCs. Furthermore, an impressive PCE of 13.21% has been achieved in a tandem device from a fully non-halogenated solvent system, which integrates a wide bandgap PDTBTBz-2F poly-mer in the bottom cell and LBG PDPP4T-1F polymer in the top cell. The achieved efficiency is the highest value reported in the literature to date in fullerene-based tandem PSCs. We found that a uniformly dis-tributed interpenetrating fibril network with nano-scale phase separation and anisotropy of the polymer backbone orientation for efficient charge transfer/transport and suppressed charge recombination in PDPP4T-1F-based PSCs led to outstanding PCEs in single and tandem-junction PSCs.

Key words: Low bandgap polymers, Diketopyrrolopyrrole, Tandem polymer solar cells, Non-halogenated solvent, Monofluoro-bithiophene

Shafket Rasool, Quoc Viet Hoang, Doan Van Vu, Chang Eun Song, Hang Ken Lee, Sang Kyu Lee, Jong-Cheol Lee, Sang-Jin Moon, Won Suk Shin. High-efficiency single and tandem fullerene solar cells with asymmetric monofluorinated diketopyrrolopyrrole-based polymer[J]. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2022, 64(1): 236-245.

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