Synthetic control of structural order in N-alkylthieno[3,4- c ]pyrrole-4,6-dione-based polymers for efficient solar cells

Claudia Piliego; Thomas W. Holcombe; Jessica D. Douglas; Claire H. Woo; Pierre M. Beaujuge; Jean M.J. Fréchet

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Synthetic control of structural order in N-alkylthieno[3,4- c ]pyrrole-4,6-dione-based polymers for efficient solar cells

Claudia Piliego, Thomas W. Holcombe, Jessica D. Douglas, Claire H. Woo, Pierre M. Beaujuge, Jean M.J. Fréchet

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The correlation between the nature of alkyl substituents on N-alkylthieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione (TPD)-based polymers and solar cell device performance has been investigated. After adjusting device parameters, these TPD-based polymers used with PC₆₁BM provided photovoltaic responses ranging from 4.0% to 6.8%, depending on the size and shape of the alkyl solubilizing groups. Further, we have correlated the effect of the alkyl groups on the structural order and orientation of the polymer backbone using grazing incidence X-ray scattering analysis, and we have demonstrated how fine-tuning of these parameters can improve the power conversion efficiency.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	7595-7597
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of the American Chemical Society
Volume	132
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/ja103275u
State	Published - Jun 9 2010

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Synthetic control of structural order in N-alkylthieno[3,4- c ]pyrrole-4,6-dione-based polymers for efficient solar cells

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