The influence of side chains on solubility and photovoltaic performance of dithiophene-thienopyrazine small band gap copolymers

Polymer

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 4564-4570

  Zoombelt, Arjan P ^a,b   Leenen, Mark A M ^a   Fonrodona, Marta ^a,b   Nicolas, Yohann ^a,b   Wienk, Martijn M ^a   Janssen, René A J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Photovoltaics; Polymer composite materials; Polymer synthesis

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; CHAINS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLUBILITY;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLYMER COMPOSITE MATERIALS; POLYMER SYNTHESIS; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; YAMAMOTO COUPLING; [6 ,6]-PHENYL-C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS;

ENERGY GAP;

COPOLYMER; SOLUBILITY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 69249087802     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2009.07.028     Document Type: Article

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