Donor polymers containing benzothiadiazole and four thiophene rings in their repeating units with improved photovoltaic performance

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4410-4415

  Wang, Ergang ^a   Wang, Ming ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Duan, Chunhui ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a   Cai, Wanzhu ^a   He, Chao ^a   Wu, Hongbin ^a   Cao, Yong ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYL GROUPS; BENZOTHIADIAZOLE; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DONOR-ACCEPTOR POLYMERS; FILL FACTOR; INTERNAL DONOR; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RED SHIFT; REPEATING UNIT; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; THIADIAZOLE; THIOPHENE RING;

CELL MEMBRANES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; THIOPHENE;

POLYMERS;

EID: 67650359999     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma900601y     Document Type: Article

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