High molecular weights, polydispersities, and annealing temperatures in the optimization of bulk-heterojunction photovoltaic cells based on poly(3-hexylthiophene) or poly(3-butylthiophene)

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 2263-2273

  Hiorns, Roger C ^a   De Bettignies, Rémi ^b   Leroy, Jocelyne ^b   Bailly, Sevérine ^b   Firon, Muriel ^b   Sentein, Carole ^b   Khoukh, Abdel ^a   Preud'homme, Hugues ^a   Dagron Lartigau, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ESTERS; FRACTIONATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION;

BULK-HETEROJUNCTION; CHAIN-GROWTH POLYMERIZATION; POLYDISPERSITIES;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 33751064828     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200600005     Document Type: Article

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