TY - JOUR
T1 - Diazaisoindigo bithiophene and terthiophene copolymers for application in field-effect transistors and solar cells
AU - Yue, Wan
AU - Li, Cheng
AU - Tian, Xuelin
AU - Li, Weiwei
AU - Neophytou, Marios
AU - Chen, Hu
AU - du, weiyuan
AU - Jellett, Cameron
AU - Chen, Hung-Yang
AU - Onwubiko, Ada
AU - McCulloch, Iain
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This work was supported by Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship with the 7th European Community Framework Programme (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF-622187). The authors thank EC FP7 Project SC2, EC FP7 Project ArtESun, EC FP7 Project PolyMed, EPSRC Project EP/M00514311 and EPSRC Project EP/G037515/1 for financial support.
PY - 2017/6/10
Y1 - 2017/6/10
N2 - Two donor–acceptor conjugated polymers with azaisoindigo as acceptor units and bithiophene and terthiophene as donor units have been synthesized by Stille polymerization. These two polymers have been successfully applied in field-effect transistors and polymer solar cells. By changing the donor component of the conjugated polymer backbone from bithiophene to terthiophene, the density of thiophene in the backbone is increased, manifesting as a decrease in both ionization potential and in electron affinity. Therefore, the charge transport in field-effect transistors switches from ambipolar to predominantly hole transport behavior. PAIIDTT exhibits hole mobility up to 0.40 cm2/Vs and electron mobility of 0.02 cm2/Vs, whereas PAIIDTTT exhibits hole mobility of 0.62 cm2/Vs. Polymer solar cells were fabricated based on these two polymers as donors with PC61BM and PC71BM as acceptor where PAIIDTT shows a modest efficiency of 2.57% with a very low energy loss of 0.55 eV, while PAIIDTTT shows a higher efficiency of 6.16% with a higher energy loss of 0.74 eV. Our results suggest that azaisoindgo is a useful building block for the development of efficient polymer solar cells with further improvement possibility by tuning the alternative units on the polymer backbone. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2017
AB - Two donor–acceptor conjugated polymers with azaisoindigo as acceptor units and bithiophene and terthiophene as donor units have been synthesized by Stille polymerization. These two polymers have been successfully applied in field-effect transistors and polymer solar cells. By changing the donor component of the conjugated polymer backbone from bithiophene to terthiophene, the density of thiophene in the backbone is increased, manifesting as a decrease in both ionization potential and in electron affinity. Therefore, the charge transport in field-effect transistors switches from ambipolar to predominantly hole transport behavior. PAIIDTT exhibits hole mobility up to 0.40 cm2/Vs and electron mobility of 0.02 cm2/Vs, whereas PAIIDTTT exhibits hole mobility of 0.62 cm2/Vs. Polymer solar cells were fabricated based on these two polymers as donors with PC61BM and PC71BM as acceptor where PAIIDTT shows a modest efficiency of 2.57% with a very low energy loss of 0.55 eV, while PAIIDTTT shows a higher efficiency of 6.16% with a higher energy loss of 0.74 eV. Our results suggest that azaisoindgo is a useful building block for the development of efficient polymer solar cells with further improvement possibility by tuning the alternative units on the polymer backbone. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2017
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625139
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pola.28676/full
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U2 - 10.1002/pola.28676
DO - 10.1002/pola.28676
M3 - Article
SN - 0887-624X
VL - 55
SP - 2691
EP - 2699
JO - Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry
JF - Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry
IS - 16
ER -