Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.705, No.1, 28-34, 2020
Synthesis and characterization of new dyes based on chromone malononitrile as the electron withdrawing group and their photovoltaic effect
Two new small molecule dyes for the donor material, named IDTT-OX and IDTT-EPMP-IDC have been successfully synthesized and characterized for solution-processed bulk heterojunction organic solar cells (OSCs). These dyes are containing indacedithieno[3,2-b]thiophene (IDTT) as the donor moiety, phenylisoxazolone (OX) and malononitrile derivatives (EPMP-IDC) as the acceptor. IDTT-OX exhibits a strong self-aggregation behavior and broad absorption with an optical band gap of 1.88 eV. While IDTT-EPMP-IDC shows different behavior, the self-aggregation of IDTT-EPMP was efficiently restricted by the presence of the alkyl group at EPMP-IDC functional group in the molecule and it has 1.60 eV optical bandgap. The inverted-type OSCs based on the blend of IDTT-OX (or IDTT-EPMP-IDC) as a donor, PC71BM as an acceptor are fabricated. The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of the optimized OSCs are reached up to 0.29% for IDTT-OX and 2.07% for IDTT-EPMP-IDC.
Keywords:Indacenodithienothiophene-based photoactive material;inverted organic solar cell;small molecule donor