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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
卷 23, 期 4, 页码 439-445出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201201385
关键词
conjugated polymers; organic electronics; photovoltaic devices; structure-property relationships
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- Center for Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion, an Energy Frontier Research Center
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0000957]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20108004, 20108001] Funding Source: KAKEN
To devise a reliable strategy for achieving specific HOMO and LUMO energy level modulation via alternating donor-acceptor monomer units, we investigate a series of conjugated polymers (CPs) in which the electron withdrawing power of the acceptor group is varied, while maintaining the same donor group and the same conjugated chain conformation. Through experiment and DFT calculations, good correlation is identified between the withdrawing strength of the acceptor group, the HOMO and LUMO levels, and the degree of orbital localization, which allows reliable design principles for CPs. Increasing the acceptor strength results in an enhanced charge transfer upon combination with a donor monomer and a more pronounced decrease of the LUMO level. Moreover, while HOMO states remain delocalized along the polymer chain, LUMO states are strongly localized at specific bonds within the acceptor group. The degree of LUMO localization increases with increasing polymer length, which results in a further drop of the LUMO level and converges to its final value when the number of repeat units reaches the characteristic conjugation length. Based on these insights we designed PBT8PT, which exhibits 6.78% power conversion efficiency after device optimization via the additive assisted annealing, demonstrating the effectiveness of our predictive design approach.
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