Solution-processed bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells from gradient π-conjugated thienylene vinylene dendrimers

Chemistry - An Asian Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 105-113

  Wang, Jin Liang ^a   Zhong, Chengmei ^b   Tang, Zheng Ming ^a   Wu, Hongbin ^b   Ma, Yuguo ^a   Cao, Yong ^b   Pei, Jian ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Conducting materials; Dendrimers; Molecular devices; Molecular electronics; Photophysics

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION BAND; ABSORPTION REGION; ACTIVE MATERIAL; AIR MASS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CONDUCTING MATERIALS; DENDRITIC STRUCTURES; ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; FILM-FORMING; GOOD YIELD; MALDI TOF MS; METHYL ESTERS; MODEL COMPOUND; MOLAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; MOLECULAR DEVICE; MOLECULAR DEVICES; NMR SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOPHYSICS; PL QUANTUM YIELD; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RECORD VALUES; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; WITTIG-HORNER REACTION;

ABSORPTION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DENDRIMERS; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

DENDRIMER; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SYNTHESIS;

DENDRIMERS; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; THIOPHENES;

EID: 73949131796     PISSN: 18614728     EISSN: 1861471X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asia.200900245     Document Type: Article

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