文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Indacenodithiophene: a promising building block for high performance polymer solar cells

作者：Li, Yongxi[1];Gu, Minchao[1];Pan, Zhe[1];Zhang, Bin[1];Yang, Xutong[2];Gu, Junwei[2];Chen, Yu[1]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Shanghai Key Lab Funct Mat Chem, Key Lab Adv Mat, Sch Chem & Mol Engn, 130 Meilong Rd, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]Northwestern Polytech Univ, Shaanxi Key Lab Macromol Sci & Technol, Dept Appl Chem, Sch Sci, Xian 710072, Shaanxi, Peoples R China

年份：2017

卷号：5

期号：22

起止页码：10798

外文期刊名：JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A

收录：;EI(收录号：20172803923331);WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000402734600003)】；

基金：This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21504062), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project (2015M581853) and Jiangsu Province Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project (1501024B).

语种：英文

外文关键词：Energy gap - Solar power generation - Aromatic compounds

摘要：Harvesting energy directly from sunlight using photovoltaic technology has become an essential component of future global energy production. Although silicon-based inorganic materials still play a dominant role in the market, problems for inorganic materials-based solar cells mainly lie in (1) the high cost of production and technical difficulties in the fabrication of large-area cells and (2) supply of highly purified silicon. In contrast to inorganic photovoltaic materials, organic/polymer photovoltaic materials have currently become of broader interest owing to their great potential to bring about a major breakthrough in reducing the cost of solar cells. As a promising building block to construct narrow bandgap semiconductors for high-efficiency photovoltaics, structurally well-defined indacenodithiophene (IDT) and its derivatives have inspired great interest in the industrial and academic communities over recent years due to their rigidified and tunable coplanar fused ring aromatic structures, and 3D conformation as well. The aromatic fused-ring blocks efficiently restrain rotational disorder and consequently lower reorganization energy. An encouraging power conversion efficiency of more than 12% has been achieved in the IDT-based polymer solar cells. This review surveys recent research advances in the area of IDT-based conjugated materials for photovoltaic applications. The factors affecting the bandgaps, molecular energy levels, film morphologies, as well as the photovoltaic performance of these materials have also been discussed.