Investigation of new PPV-type polymeric materials containing fluorene and thiophene units and their application in organic solar cells

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 160, Issue 15-16, 2010, Pages 1654-1661

  De Freitas, Jilian Nei ^a   Pivrikas, Almantas ^b   Nowacki, Bruno F ^c   Akcelrud, Leni C ^c   Sariciftci, N Serdar ^b   Nogueira, Ana Flávia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conducting polymers; Organic solar cells; Polyfluorene; Polythiophene; PPV

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CONCENTRATION OF; FLUORENES; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; FUNCTIONAL UNITS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOPHYSICAL; POLY-P-PHENYLENEVINYLENE; POLY-THIOPHENE; POLYFLUORENES; POLYMER BACKBONES; POLYMERIC MATERIAL; POST-PRODUCTION;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC CONDUCTORS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; THIOPHENE;

FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS;

EID: 77955420922     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2010.05.036     Document Type: Article

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