The influence of interchain branches on solid state packing, hole mobility and photovoltaic properties of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 1781-1785

  Tu, Guoli ^a,b   Bilge, Askin ^a   Adamczyk, Sylwia ^a   Forster, Michael ^a   Heiderhoff, Ralf ^a   Balk, Ludwig Josef ^a   Mühlbacher, David ^c   Morana, Mauro ^c   Koppe, Markus ^c   Scharber, Markus C ^c   Choulis, Stelios A ^d   Brabec, Christoph J ^d   Scherf, Ullrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Konarka Austria Forschungs und Entwicklungs GmbH   (Austria)

^d Konarka Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charge carrier mobility; Interchain branching; Organic solar cells; Poly(3 hexylthiophene); Solid state order

Indexed keywords

DERIVATIVES; FULLERENES; OLEFINS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLID STATE REACTIONS;

CHARGE CARRIER MOBILITY; INTERCHAIN BRANCHING; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; POLY(3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); SOLID STATE ORDER;

CARRIER MOBILITY;

EID: 34548656025     PISSN: 10221336     EISSN: 15213927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/marc.200700239     Document Type: Article

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