Poly(phenylene cyanovinylenes) carbazole based conjugated polymer as a photosensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cells

Muhammad Mansha; Umer Mehmood; Nisar Ullah

doi:10.1016/j.matlet.2018.07.122

Poly(phenylene cyanovinylenes) carbazole based conjugated polymer as a photosensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cells

Muhammad Mansha
, Umer Mehmood
, Nisar Ullah^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A carbazole based new n-type conjugated polymer (CP) has been synthesized and employed as a photosensitizer in polymer-sensitized solar cells (PSSCs). The synthesis of CP was accomplished by the reaction of appropriate monomer dialdehyde with aromatic dinitriles, under Knoevenagel condensation conditions followed by its characterization by ¹H NMR and FT-IR. The band gap of CP measured by cyclic voltammetry (CV), density functional theory (DFT) and diffuse reflectance (DR) UV-vis spectroscopy revealed closely matched values of 2.57, 2.47, and 2.64 eV respectively. Under the illumination of AM1.5G (100 mW cm⁻²), CP based PSSCs exhibited power conversion efficiency of 2.08% with a short-circuit current density (J_SC) of 7.0 mA/cm², an open-circuit voltage (V_oc) of 534 mV and a fill factor (FF) of 55.85%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	56-59
Number of pages	4
Journal	Materials Letters
Volume	231
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2018.07.122
State	Published - 15 Nov 2018

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Keywords

Conjugated polymer
Narrow band gap
PSSC
Photosensitizer

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Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering

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