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Patent No.:

US 9917260 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2014

Compounds with terminal heteroarylcyanovinylene groups and their use in organic solar cells

Applicant:

Basf SE, Ludwigshafen, DE;

Inventors:

Sudhakar Sundarraj, Singapore, SG;

Christian Eickhoff, Mannheim, DE;

Sheeja Bahulayan, Singapore, SG;

Robert Send, Karlsruhe, DE;

Yuichi Nishimae, Ibaraki, JP;

Helmut Reichelt, Neustadt, DE;

Junichi Tanabe, Takarazuka, JP;

Peter Erk, Frankenthal, DE;

Assignee:

BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, DE;

Attorney:

Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

Primary Examiner:

William Cheung

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/00 (2006.01); H01L 31/00 (2006.01); H01L 51/00 (2006.01); C09K 11/06 (2006.01); H05B 33/10 (2006.01); H01L 51/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 51/0068 (2013.01); C09K 11/06 (2013.01); H01L 51/0046 (2013.01); H01L 51/0052 (2013.01); H01L 51/0053 (2013.01); H01L 51/0065 (2013.01); H01L 51/0067 (2013.01); H01L 51/0069 (2013.01); H01L 51/0071 (2013.01); H01L 51/0072 (2013.01); H01L 51/0074 (2013.01); H01L 51/424 (2013.01); H05B 33/10 (2013.01); C09K 2211/104 (2013.01); C09K 2211/1007 (2013.01); C09K 2211/1011 (2013.01); C09K 2211/1029 (2013.01); C09K 2211/1037 (2013.01); C09K 2211/1088 (2013.01); C09K 2211/1092 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention relates to a photoactive material comprising a donor substance and an acceptor substance, wherein the donor substance comprises or consists of one or more compounds of formula (I) described herein, or the acceptor substance comprises or consists of one or more compounds of formula (I) described herein, or the donor substance comprises or consists of a first compound of formula (I) described herein and the acceptor substance comprises a second compound of formula (I) described herein with the proviso that the first and second compound are not the same, as well as to an organic solar cell comprising said photoactive material. The present invention also relates to a photoelectric conversion device comprising or consisting of two or more organic solar cells comprising said photoactive material and to compounds of formula (I) as described herein for use as donor substance or as acceptor substance in a photoactive material, Further, the present invention relates to the use of a compound of formula (III) as described herein in the synthesis of a compound of formula (I)as described herein.

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