Significantly increasing open-circuit voltage of the benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene-alt-5,8-dithienyl-quinoxaline copolymers based PSCs by appending dioctyloxy chains at 6,7-positions of quinoxaline
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Abstract Two novel 5,8-disubstituted benzo[1,2- b :4,5- b ′]dithiophene- alt -2,3-di(4-methoxylphenyl)-6,7-dioctyloxy-5,8-dithienyl-quinoxaline copolymers of PBDTDT-(Qx-2)-O and PBDTDT(Qx-2)-T were designed and synthesized, in which the substituents are branch dioctyloxy and di(octylthienyl), respectively. Their optical, thermal, electro-chemical and photovoltaic properties were investigated. Compared to the reported analogues, both one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) copolymers exhibited outstandingly increasing open-circuit voltages ( V oc ) about 0.91–0.95 V in their bulk hetero-junction polymer solar cells (PSCs) with [6,6]-phenyl-C 71 -butyric acid methyl ester (PC 71 BM) acceptor. The maximum power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 6.31% with V oc of 0.95 V, short-circuit current of 10.82 mA cm −2 and fill factor of 61.4% was obtained in the 2D-conjugated polymer of PBDTDT(Qx-2)-T/PC 71 BM-based device. The PCE value is 1.42 times higher than that of the 1D-conjugated polymer of PBDTD(Qx-2)-O/PC 71 BM-based device. Our work demonstrates that V oc values of the quinoxaline-type copolymers based PSCs can remarkably be increased by appending dioctyloxy chains at 6,7-positions of quinoxaline.
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