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Rational Design of Donor–Acceptor Based Semiconducting Copolymers with High Dielectric Constants

Aiswarya Abhisek Mohapatra, Yifan Dong, Puttaraju Boregowda, Ashutosh Mohanty, Aditya Sadhanala, Xuechen Jiao, Awadhesh Narayan, Christopher R. McNeill, James Durrant Orcid Logo

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Volume: 125, Issue: 12, Pages: 6886 - 6896

Swansea University Author: James Durrant Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c00340

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The low dielectric constant of organic semiconductors limits the efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs). In an attempt to improve the dielectric constant of conjugated polymers, we report the synthesis of three semiconducting copolymers by combining the thiophene-substituted diketopyrrolopyrrole (...

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ISSN: 1932-7447 1932-7455
Published: American Chemical Society (ACS) 2021
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title Rational Design of Donor–Acceptor Based Semiconducting Copolymers with High Dielectric Constants
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James Durrant
title_short Rational Design of Donor–Acceptor Based Semiconducting Copolymers with High Dielectric Constants
title_full Rational Design of Donor–Acceptor Based Semiconducting Copolymers with High Dielectric Constants
title_fullStr Rational Design of Donor–Acceptor Based Semiconducting Copolymers with High Dielectric Constants
title_full_unstemmed Rational Design of Donor–Acceptor Based Semiconducting Copolymers with High Dielectric Constants
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description The low dielectric constant of organic semiconductors limits the efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs). In an attempt to improve the dielectric constant of conjugated polymers, we report the synthesis of three semiconducting copolymers by combining the thiophene-substituted diketopyrrolopyrrole (TDPP) monomer with three different monomeric units with varying electron donating/accepting strengths: benzodithiophene (BBT-3TEG-TDPP), TDPP (TDPP-3TEG-TDPP), and naphthalene diimide (P(gNDI-TDPP)). Among the series, BBT-3TEG-TDPP and P(gNDI-TDPP) exhibited the highest dielectric constants (∼5) at 1 MHz frequency, signifying the contribution of dipolar polarization from TEG side-chains. Furthermore, transient absorption spectroscopic studies performed on these polymers indicated low exciton diffusion length as observed in common organic semiconducting polymers. Our findings suggest that utilizing the polar side-chains enhances the dielectric constant in a frequency regime of megahertz. However, it is not sufficient to reduce the Coulombic interaction between hole and electron in excitonic solar cells.
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