Electrochemical considerations for determining absolute frontier orbital energy levels of conjugated polymers for solar cell applications

Advanced Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 2367-2371

  Cardona, Claudia M ^a   Li, Wei ^b   Kaifer, Angel E ^b   Stockdale, David ^c   Bazan, Guillermo C ^c  

^a LUNA INNOVATIONS INC   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

conjugated polymers; cyclic voltammetry; ferrocene; organic photovoltaics; standard potentials

Indexed keywords

COMPARISON OF MATERIALS; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; ELECTROCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; FERROCENES; FERROCENIUM; FRONTIER ORBITAL ENERGIES; NARROW BAND GAP; ORBITAL ENERGY LEVELS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REDOX COUPLE; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; STANDARD POTENTIALS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRODES; IRON COMPOUNDS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR ENERGY; STANDARDS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

FERROCENE; FERROCENIUM; FERROUS ION; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY;

ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; FULLERENES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 79958859853     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201004554     Document Type: Article

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