Correlation between polymer architecture, mesoscale structure and photovoltaic performance in side-chain-modified poly(p-arylene-ethynylene)-alt- poly(p-arylene-vinylene): PCBM bulk-heterojunction solar cells

Polymer

Volumn 52, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3819-3826

  Rathgeber, Silke ^a,f   Perlich, Jan ^b   Kühnlenz, Florian ^c   Türk, Stefan ^d   Egbe, Daniel A M ^e   Hoppe, Harald ^c   Gehrke, Rainer ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^f University of Koblenz   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction solar cells; Conjugated polymers; Grazing incidence x ray scattering

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; AROMATIC POLYMERS; BUTYRIC ACID; CHAINS; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; ELECTRODES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; X RAY SCATTERING;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CONJUGATED BACKBONES; GRAZING-INCIDENCE X-RAY SCATTERING; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLYMER ARCHITECTURE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; STATISTICAL COPOLYMERS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 79961029526     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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