Near-Infrared Harvesting Fullerene-Free All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells Based on Porphyrin Donors

Wisnu Tantyo Hadmojo; Dajeong Yim; Septy Sinaga; Wooseop Lee; Du Yeol Ryu; Woo Dong Jang; In Hwan Jung; Sung Yeon Jang

doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b00010

Near-Infrared Harvesting Fullerene-Free All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells Based on Porphyrin Donors

Wisnu Tantyo Hadmojo, Dajeong Yim, Septy Sinaga, Wooseop Lee, Du Yeol Ryu, Woo Dong Jang^*, In Hwan Jung, Sung Yeon Jang

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Fullerene-free all-small-molecule organic photovoltaic cells (SM-OPVs) have attracted considerable attention because of well-defined molecular structures with low batch-to-batch variation. Porphyrin derivatives have recently emerged as one of the promising conjugated building blocks for the small-molecule (SM) donors. Herein, we first report fullerene-free SM-OPVs employing porphyrin-based donors. Three zinc porphyrin (P_Zn)-based SM donors, which have strong bimodal absorption in the visible region and near-infrared region, are synthesized. Constructing bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) active layers using the P_Zn donors and a SM acceptor, IDIC, which have complementary absorption, achieved panchromatic photon-to-current-conversion from 400 to 900 nm. The manipulation of side chains in the P_Zn donors considerably influenced the molecular ordering and nanomorphology of the BHJ active layers. P_Zn-based fullerene-free SM-OPV devices with promising power conversion efficiency of 6.13% were achieved, which also offers crucial guidance for developing fullerene-free OPVs using porphyrin derivatives.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	5306-5313
Number of pages	8
Journal	ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
Volume	6
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b00010
State	Published - Apr 2 2018

Keywords

All-small-molecule solar cell
Fullerene free
Organic solar cell
Panchromatic absoprtion
Porphyrin donor

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