Effects of bridging atom and π-bridge length on physical and photovoltaic properties of A–π-D–π-A oligomers for solution-processed organic solar cellsстатья
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Аннотация:Abstract Synthesis of novel acceptor–donor–acceptor oligomers with electron-withdrawing alkyldicyanovinyl groups linked through an oligothiophene π-bridge with either dithienosilole or cyclopentadithiophene electron donor units is described. Changing the bridgehead atom from carbon to silicon in the central donor unit leads to a significant change in optical, thermal and structural properties of the oligomers. In addition, elongation of the oligothiophene π-bridge in the oligomers increases energies of HOMO and LUMO levels and leads to an unexpected hypsochromic shift of their absorption spectrum, because extension of the conjugation length cannot compensate a decrease of the intramolecular charge transfer between the dithienosilole and dicyanovinyl units. Although these minor changes in the chemical structures have a pronounced impact on the morphologies of their blends with PC70BM, the optimized solution-processed organic solar cells based on these small molecules demonstrate similar power conversion efficiencies.