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dc.contributor.authorWang, Guanlin
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-26 18:04:31 (GMT)
dc.date.available2022-01-27 05:50:06 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2021-01-26
dc.date.submitted2021-01-19
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/16738
dc.description.abstractThe rise of renewable energy and the urgency of sustainable development make organic solar cells (OSCs) or organic photovoltaics (OPVs) valued. Among so many donor materials for bulk heterojunction structure, P3HT is one of the most common donor polymers which is cost-effective and has been studied deeply. The room and potential for the improvement of OSCs based on polythiophene material still need further research. Therefore, Poly(4,4’-didodecyl-2,2’-bithiophene-azine) (PDDBTA), a new semiconducting azine polymer was synthesized in only three steps. As a p-channel material, PDDBTA showed hole mobilities of up to 4.1  10-2 cm2 V-1 s-1 in organic thin film transistors (OTFTs). As a donor in organic solar cells (OSCs), a 2.18% of power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) was achieved, which was the first example to use an azine-based polymer to fabricate organic photovoltaics (OPVs). These performances indicate the potential of bithiophene-azine polymers as a new type of low-cost semiconductor materials for OPVs and other organic electronics. The performances of OTFT and OPV devices have reached the same level as those fabricated with P3HT. However, the morphology of the active layer mixed by PDDBTA and PCBM was relatively unsatisfying due to the poor solubility and high crystallinity nature based-on a straight longer side chain, which had an adverse effect to charge transport and charge collection of the active layer, thereby limited the JSC and FF. In order to increase the solubility to form a better blend film morphology and lower the aggregation caused by high crystallinity, as well as obtain a better phase separation and maintain the original performance of PDDBTA, a branch sidechain polymer PDEHBTA and a shorter straight sidechain polymer with pyrrole units as backbone PHPA were synthesized. However, the low molecular weight of these two types of optimized structures became an obstacle that hindered the OPVs to gain a satisfactory JSC and FF, and only 1.58% of PCE based on PDEHBTA OSCs and 1.1% of that fabricated with PHPA were obtained, respectively.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectOTFTsen
dc.subjectOPVsen
dc.subjectazine polymeren
dc.subjectlow costen
dc.subjectHOMO levelen
dc.subjectsolubilityen
dc.titleA new series of semiconducting azine polymers and their applications in organic electronicsen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
dc.pendingfalse
uws-etd.degree.departmentChemical Engineeringen
uws-etd.degree.disciplineChemical Engineering (Nanotechnology)en
uws-etd.degree.grantorUniversity of Waterlooen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Applied Scienceen
uws-etd.embargo.terms1 yearen
uws.contributor.advisorLi, Yuning
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Engineeringen
uws.published.cityWaterlooen
uws.published.countryCanadaen
uws.published.provinceOntarioen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen


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