Low band gap vinylene compounds with triphenylamine and benzothiadiazole segments for use in photovoltaic cells

Organic Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1320-1333

  Mikroyannidis, John A ^a   Stylianakis, Minas M ^a   Suresh, P ^b   Balraju, P ^b   Sharma, G D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b JAI NARAIN VYAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Jaipur Engineering College   (India)

Author keywords

Benzothiadiazole; Bulk heterojunction; Photophysics; Small molecule solar cells; Thiophene; Triphenylamine; Vinylene compounds

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HOLE MOBILITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; THIOPHENE;

BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; PHOTOPHYSICS; SMALL MOLECULES; TRIPHENYL AMINES; VINYLENE COMPOUNDS;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 69749099125     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2009.07.013     Document Type: Article

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