The nature of in-plane skeleton Raman modes of P3HT and their correlation to the degree of molecular order in P3HT:PCBM blend thin films

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 9834-9843

  Tsoi, Wing C ^a,b   James, David T ^a   Kim, Jong Soo ^a   Nicholson, Patrick G ^b   Murphy, Craig E ^b   Bradley, Donal D C ^a   Nelson, Jenny ^a   Kim, Ji Seon ^a,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEND FILMS; BLEND THIN FILMS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DISORDERED PHASE; DISORDERED PHASIS; IN-PLANE; LARGE SHIFTS; METHYL ESTERS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR ORDERS; NONRESONANT; ORDERED PHASE; PEAK POSITION; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; RAMAN DISPERSION; RAMAN MODES; RESONANT CONDITION; THERMAL-ANNEALING; WAVE NUMBERS;

BLENDING; BUTYRIC ACID; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; FATTY ACIDS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

THIN FILMS;

[6,6]PHENYL C 61 BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTER; ESTER; POLY(3 HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLYMER; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CONFORMATION; DISPERSION; FILM; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SIMULATION; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959499751     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja2013104     Document Type: Article

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