Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Vol.35, No.15, 1362-1366, 2014
A Fused-Ring Acceptor Unit in D-A Copolymers Benefits Photovoltaic Performance
Pentacyclic lactam acceptor unit TPTI invented by our group is proved to be a good building block for efficient D-A copolymers used in organic solar cells. Here, two D-A copolymers PBTTPTI and PTTTPTI are developed by copolymerizing TPTI with 2,2'-bithiophene (BT) or thieno[3,2-b] thiophene (TT). PBTTPTI and PTTTPTI exhibit good solubility and strong interchain pi-pi interaction even in dilute solution. They possess deep HOMO levels (ca. -5.3 eV), partial crystallinity, and good hole mobilities. Blending with PC71 BM, PBTTPTI and PTTTPTI give decent power conversion efficiencies (PCE) up to 6.83% and 5.86%, with outstanding fill factors (FF) of 74.3% and 71.3%, respectively.