Enhanced charge transport by incorporating additional thiophene units in the poly(fluorene-thienyl-benzothiadiazole) polymer

Organic Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 461-471

  Chen, Zhuoying ^a   Fang, Junfeng ^b   Gao, Feng ^a   Brenner, Thomas J K ^a   Banger, Kulbinder K ^a   Wang, Xingzhu ^b   Huck, Wilhelm T S ^b,c   Sirringhaus, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambipolar transport; Conjugated polymers; Field effect transistors; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; ENERGY GAP; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; THIOPHENE;

1 ,3-BENZOTHIADIAZOLE; AMBIPOLAR TRANSPORT; ENHANCED CARRIER MOBILITY; INTERCHAIN INTERACTIONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURE AND MORPHOLOGY;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 78651553963     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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