Polythiophenes bearing electron-withdrawing groups in the side chain and their application to bulk heterojunction solar cells

Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 234-241

  Lee, Kwang Hoi ^a   Lee, Ho Jin ^b   Kuramoto, Kouji ^c   Tanaka, Yohei ^c   Morino, Kazuhide ^a   Sudo, Atsushi ^a   Okauchi, Tatsuo ^c   Tsuge, Akihito ^c   Endo, Takeshi ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JSR CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

conjugated polymers; copolymerization; polythiophene; solar cell; Stille coupling reaction; thin films

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BLEND FILMS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CURRENT DENSITY-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRON WITHDRAWING GROUP; FILL FACTOR; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL ENERGY LEVELS; OPEN CURRENT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLY-THIOPHENE; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYTHIOPHENES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SIDE CHAINS; SOLAR CELL PARAMETERS; STILLE COUPLING REACTION; SURFACE ANALYZERS;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THIN FILMS; THIOPHENE;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 78649829989     PISSN: 0887624X     EISSN: 10990518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pola.24444     Document Type: Article

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