Issue 27, 2014

Molecular engineering of small molecules donor materials based on phenoxazine core unit for solution-processed organic solar cells

Abstract

A D–π–A type small molecule POZ4 and a A–π–D–π–A type small molecule POZ6, in which phenoxazine was used as the central building block and dicyanovinyl was employed as the electron-withdrawing end-group, have been designed and synthesized. Compared with D–π–A type donor material POZ4, the donor material POZ6 with A–π–D–π–A configuration shows much wider response to solar light. An efficiency of 5.60% was obtained for the POZ6:PC71BM based solar cells, and the device fabricated with POZ6:PC71BM (1 : 1) showed a much better balanced hole and electron mobility of 2.24 × 10−4 cm2 V−1 s−1 and 3.17 × 10−4 cm2 V−1 s−1, respectively.

Graphical abstract: Molecular engineering of small molecules donor materials based on phenoxazine core unit for solution-processed organic solar cells

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
24 Apr 2014
Accepted
06 May 2014
First published
07 May 2014

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014,2, 10465-10469

Author version available

Molecular engineering of small molecules donor materials based on phenoxazine core unit for solution-processed organic solar cells

M. Cheng, X. Yang, C. Chen, Q. Tan and L. Sun, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 10465 DOI: 10.1039/C4TA02042A

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