Kouichi Matsumoto; Kazuhiro Yamashita; Yuuki Sakoda; Hinata Ezoe; Yuki Tanaka; Tatsuya Okazaki; Misaki Ohkita; Senku Tanaka; Yuki Aoki; Daisuke Kiriya; Shigenori Kashimura; Masahiko Maekawa; Takayoshi Kuroda-Sowa; Takashi Okubo
Eur. J. Org. Chem. WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH 2021 (33) 4620 - 4629 1434-193X 2021/09
[Refereed] New star-shaped non-fullerene acceptors (5Z,5 ' Z,5 '' Z)-5,5 ',5 ''-((benzo[1,2-b : 3,4-b ' : 5,6-b '']trithiophene-2,5,8-triyltris(4-octylthiophene-5,2-diyl))tris(methaneylylidene))tris(3-octyl-2-thioxothiazolidin-4-one) (1: BTT-OT-ORD) and 2,2 ',2 ''-((5Z,5 ' Z,5 '' Z)-((benzo[1,2-b : 3,4-b ' : 5,6-b '']trithiophene-2,5,8-triyltris(4-octylthiophene-5,2-diyl))tris(methaneylylidene))tris(3-octyl-4-oxothiazolidine-5,2-diylidene))trimalononitrile (2: BTT-OT-OTZDM) with a benzotrithiophene core, alkyl-thiophen units, and acceptor units were designed and synthesized. The HOMO-LUMO levels of 1 and 2 were determined by photoemission spectroscopy and UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy. Binary blend and ternary blend bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells with non-fullerene acceptors 1 and 2 were fabricated with the inverted device structures of glass/ITO/ZnO/active_layer/MoO3/Ag. Both binary blend BHJ solar cells with 1 and 2 show lower J(SC) and larger V-OC values than P3HT : PCBM solar cells. On the other hand, ternary blend BHJ organic solar cells, including 10 % of 1, exhibited a larger power conversion efficiency than P3HT : PCBM solar cells because the J(SC) value was largely improved.