Side Chain Engineering of Beznodithiophene and Quinoxaline-Based Polymers for Enhanced Charge-Carrier Mobility and Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

Yong Zhang
Harbin Institute of Technology


Abstract

Over the past years, polymer solar cells have been widely investigated as the potential renewable energy source because of their low-cost, light-weight, flexible and large area fabrication technology via ink-jet printing. The current performances of state-of-the art polymer solar cells have increased to more than 10% through various materials development and device engineering. One of the challenges to further improve the performance is the new low band-gap polymer development, in those reported low band-gap polymers, only a few of them could provide a high and repeatable photovoltaic performance with device optimization. Understanding the relationship between structure and performance is curial to develop and design high performance polymers. Herein, we reported a significant side chain effect on the photovoltaic performance in the novel beznodithiophene and quinoxaline-based polymers. By changing the side chain position, we found the two polymers have total different optical, cyclic voltammetry properties. The photovoltaic performance varied from 0.69% to 4.54%. In this conference, we will give the detail report in these optical, cyclic voltammetry, FET, and photovoltaic properties.