Effect of carbonitrile and hexyloxy substituents on alternated copolymer of polythiophene-Performances in photovoltaic cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 699-708

  Berson, Solenn ^a,b   Cecioni, Samy ^a   Billon, Martial ^a   Kervella, Yann ^a   de Bettignies, Rémi ^b   Bailly, Séverine ^b   Guillerez, Stéphane ^b  

^a Departement de Recherches Fondamentales sur la Matiere Condensee CEA Grenoble   (France)

^b CEA/DRT/LITEN/DTS/LCS   (France)

Author keywords

Organic solar cell; Photovoltaic; Polythiophene

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BITHIOPHENES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CHEMICAL POLYMERIZATION; COUPLING REACTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON DONORS; ELECTRON-DONATING; ELECTRONWITHDRAWING; HOMO ENERGY LEVELS; LOW BAND GAP; METHYL ESTERS; NOVEL SERIES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PLANARITY; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLY-THIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REGIO-REGULAR; REGIOREGULARITY; SOLAR ILLUMINATION;

CHEMICAL BONDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONS; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MONOMERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; OXYGEN; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SULFUR; THIOPHENE;

POLYMERS;

EID: 77949654991     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2009.12.028     Document Type: Review

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