Soluble narrow-band-gap copolymers containing novel cyclopentadithiophene units for organic photovoltaic cell applications

Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2073-2092

  Li, Kuang Chieh ^a   Hsu, Ying Chan ^b   Lin, Jiann T'Suen ^b   Yang, Chang Chung ^c   Wei, Kung Hwa ^a   Lin, Hong Cheu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

^c INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conjugated polymers; Copolymerization; Cyclopentadithiophene; Heteroatom containing polymers; Polymer solar cell

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CONJUGATED COPOLYMERS; CYCLOPENTADITHIOPHENE; ELECTROCHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON DONORS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FILL FACTOR; HETEROATOM-CONTAINING POLYMERS; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; KETO GROUPS; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; METHYL ESTERS; MOLAR RATIO; MOLECULAR DESIGN; N-DOPING; NARROW BANDS; NEAR INFRARED; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; OVERALL POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; POLYMER SOLAR CELL; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SOLAR PHOTONS; WEIGHT RATIOS; WHITE-LIGHT ILLUMINATION;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR MODELING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 65949107582     PISSN: 0887624X     EISSN: 10990518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pola.23312     Document Type: Article

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