Theoretical study of new conjugated compounds with a low bandgap for bulk heterojunction solar cells: DFT and TD-DFT study

Abstract

Bulk heterojunction solar cells have attracted scientific and economic interest in recent years, and have just been one of the future photovoltaic technologies to produce energy at low cost. To study the electronic and geometric properties of a novel conjugated polymer called r-PTTDPP50, which is formed from a derivative of diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP), thiophene conjugated side chain and 2, 5-bis (trimethylstannyl) thiophene, functional density theory (DFT) has been used with several methods such as B3LYP, PBEPBE, B3PW91 and mPW1PW91 and the basis set 6-31G (d, p),to obtain the most appropriate method. The absorption properties have been obtained by the CAM-B3LYP method. Then, the functional tests giving the closest result to the experimental ones will be used to propose other structure candidates for applications in the domain of organic electronics. This research has been used to conduct next syntheses to compounds more helpful as active materials in optoelectronic.

Keywords

• Bulk heterojunction
• Solar cells
• Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)
• Thiophene
• DFT