Abstract
Two polymers J75 and J76 with selenophene instead of thiophene on the conjugated side chain of benzodithiophene (BDT) unit or π bridges of polymer J71 were designed and synthesized, for investigating the effect of selenophene substitution on the photovoltaic performance of the conjugated polymer donors in comparison with J71. The selenophene π bridges in J76 can narrow optical band gap and red-shift absorption of the polymer film by ca. 25 nm, but the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy level (EHOMO) of J76 is up-shifted slightly by 0.04 eV. Two typical electron acceptors of fullerene derivative PC71BM and the nonfullerene acceptor m-ITIC were used to investigate photovoltaic performance of the polymer donors. For the PC71BM-based polymer solar cells (PSCs), J76 with selenophene π bridges shows the best power-conversion efficiency (PCE) of 8.40% in comparison with the J71-based device (PCE = 6.79%), benefitted from the red-shifted absorption, larger coherence length, purer average domains, an...
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