Design of new hole transport materials based on triphenylamine derivatives using different π-linkers for the application in perovskite solar cells. A theoretical study

Autor: José David Quezada-Borja, Luz María Rodríguez-Valdez, Juan Pedro Palomares-Báez, Marco Antonio Chávez-Rojo, Linda-Lucila Landeros-Martinez, Mayra Cristina Martínez-Ceniceros, Gabriel Rojas-George, Isui Abril García-Montoya, Nora Aydeé Sánchez-Bojorge
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Chemistry, Vol 10 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2296-2646
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.907556
Popis: New organic molecules containing five different compounds, commonly called p-linkers, located between the triphenylamine units, were theoretically designed and analyzed in order to be proposed as new hole transport materials (HTMs) in perovskite solar cells, in total ten new molecules were analyzed. The electronic, optical and hole transport properties were determined, similarly, the relationship of these properties with their molecular structure was also investigated by Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Density Functional Tight Binding (DFTB) calculations. Eight of the ten analyzed compounds exhibited the main absorption band out of the visible region; therefore these compounds did not present an overlap with the absorption spectra of the typical methylammonium lead iodide (MAPI) hybrid-perovskite. The results showed that the Highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) levels of the compounds are higher than the perovskite HOMO level, and in some cases these are even higher than the Spiro-OMeTAD HOMO. The calculated electronic couplings and the reorganization energy values provided useful information in order to determine if the systems were hole or electron transport materials.
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