4H-1,2,6-Thiadiazin-4-one-containing small molecule donors and additive effects on their performance in solution-processed organic solar cells

Felix Hermerschmidt; Andreas S. Kalogirou; Jie Min; Georgia A. Zissimou; Sachetan M. Tuladhar; Tayebeh Ameri; Hendrik Faber; Grigorios Itskos; Stelios A. Choulis; Thomas D. Anthopoulos; Donal D.C. Bradley; Jenny Nelson; Christoph J. Brabec; Panayiotis A. Koutentis

doi:10.1039/c4tc02931c

4H-1,2,6-Thiadiazin-4-one-containing small molecule donors and additive effects on their performance in solution-processed organic solar cells

Felix Hermerschmidt, Andreas S. Kalogirou, Jie Min, Georgia A. Zissimou, Sachetan M. Tuladhar, Tayebeh Ameri, Hendrik Faber, Grigorios Itskos, Stelios A. Choulis, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Donal D.C. Bradley, Jenny Nelson, Christoph J. Brabec, Panayiotis A. Koutentis

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The optical, electrochemical, morphological and transport properties of a series of thiadiazinone (acceptor) and (thienyl)carbazoles (donor) containing π-extended donor-acceptor-donors (D-A-D) are presented. Systematic variations in the number of the thienyl units, the choice of branched or straight alkyl side chains and the use of a processing additive demonstrate their use as electron donors in bulk heterojunction solar cells blended with fullerene acceptors. The best power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 2.7% is achieved by adding to the D-A-D 3:fullerene blend a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) additive, that improves the morphology and doubles the hole mobility within the D-A-D:fullerene blend.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2358-2365
Number of pages	8
Journal	JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
Volume	3
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c4tc02931c
State	Published - Mar 14 2015
Externally published	Yes

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Hermerschmidt, F., Kalogirou, A. S., Min, J., Zissimou, G. A., Tuladhar, S. M., Ameri, T., Faber, H., Itskos, G., Choulis, S. A., Anthopoulos, T. D., Bradley, D. D. C., Nelson, J., Brabec, C. J., & Koutentis, P. A. (2015). 4H-1,2,6-Thiadiazin-4-one-containing small molecule donors and additive effects on their performance in solution-processed organic solar cells. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C, 3(10), 2358-2365. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4tc02931c

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