Bandgap engineering of indenofluorene-based conjugated copolymers with pendant donor-π-acceptor chromophores for photovoltaic applications

Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 4406-4415

  Duan, Chunhui ^a   Cai, Wanzhu ^a   Zhong, Chengmei ^a   Li, Yanhu ^a   Wang, Xiaohui ^a   Huang, Fei ^a   Cao, Yong ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction solar cells; charge transport; conjugated polymers; D A chromophores pended polymers; electrochemistry; indenofluorene; narrow band gap

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTOR GROUPS; BAND GAP ENGINEERING; BAND GAPS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CHARGE MOBILITIES; COMMON SOLVENTS; CONJUGATED COPOLYMERS; ELECTRON DONORS; FILM MORPHOLOGY; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; INDENOFLUORENE; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; METHYL ESTERS; NARROW-BAND-GAP; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SIDE-CHAINS; TRIPHENYL AMINES;

BUTYRIC ACID; CHROMOPHORES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ENERGY GAP; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR MODELING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 80052764197     PISSN: 0887624X     EISSN: 10990518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pola.24881     Document Type: Article

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