Tunable novel cyclopentadithiophene-based copolymers containing various numbers of bithiazole and thienyl units for organic photovoltaic cell applications

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3681-3693

  Li, Kuang Chieh ^a   Huang, Jen Hsien ^c   Hsu, Ying Chan ^b   Huang, Po Ju ^a   Chu, Chih Wei ^a,d   Lin, Jiann T'suen ^b   Ho, Kuo Chuan ^c   Wei, Kung Hwa ^a   Lin, Hong Cheu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BITHIAZOLE; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CONJUGATED COPOLYMERS; ELECTROCHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON DONORS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FILL FACTOR; METHYL ESTERS; MOLECULAR DESIGN; N-DOPING; NARROW BAND GAP POLYMERS; NEAR INFRARED; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; OVERALL POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SOLAR PHOTONS; STACKINGS; THIENYL; WEIGHT RATIOS; WHITE-LIGHT ILLUMINATION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; ENERGY GAP; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 66749083878     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma900416d     Document Type: Article

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