New A-A-D-A-A-Type Electron Donors for Small Molecule Organic Solar Cells
Author(s) -
LiYen Lin,
Chih-Wei Lu,
Wei-Ching Huang,
Yihong Chen,
HaoWu Lin,
KenTsung Wong
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.94
H-Index - 239
eISSN - 1523-7060
pISSN - 1523-7052
DOI - 10.1021/ol2021077
Subject(s) - chemistry , organic solar cell , small molecule , molecule , bilayer , electron , fullerene , energy conversion efficiency , electron acceptor , planar , block (permutation group theory) , solar cell , photochemistry , crystallography , optoelectronics , organic chemistry , materials science , physics , membrane , polymer , biochemistry , computer graphics (images) , quantum mechanics , computer science , geometry , mathematics
Two A-A-D-A-A-type molecules (BCNDTS and BDCDTS), where two terminal electron-withdrawing cyano or dicyanovinylene moieties are connected to a central dithienosilole core through another electron-accepting 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole block, have been synthesized, characterized, and employed as electron donors for small molecule organic solar cells. Vacuum-deposited bilayer and planar mixed heterojunction devices based on BCNDTS and fullerene acceptors (C(60) or C(70)) exhibited decent power conversion efficiencies of 2.3% and 3.7%, respectively.
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