Resonance chemical imaging of polythiophene/fullerene photovoltaic thin films: Mapping morphology-dependent aggregated and unaggregated C=C species

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 28, 2009, Pages 9654-9662

  Gao, Yongqian ^a   Grey, John K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-CAST; BLEND FILMS; BLEND THIN FILMS; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CHEMICAL IMAGING; FREQUENCY DISPERSION; INTERCHAIN INTERACTIONS; METHYL ESTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC THIN FILMS; PHYSICAL PROBES; PLANARITY; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; R VALUE; RAMAN FREQUENCIES; RAMAN MODES; RELATIVE CONCENTRATION; RELATIVE DENSITY; RESONANCE RAMAN; SYMMETRIC STRETCHING; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

ANNEALING; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; MORPHOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; THIN FILMS;

RESONANCE;

CRYSTALLIN; FULLERENE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISPERSION; FILM; HEAT TREATMENT; MORPHOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; RELATIVE DENSITY;

EID: 67650489191     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja900636z     Document Type: Article

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