Chemically treating poly(3-hexylthiophene) defects to improve bulk heterojunction photovoltaics

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2042-2050

  Liang, Ziqi ^a   Reese, Matthew O ^a   Gregg, Brian A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

conjugated polymer; Chemical modification; Defect; Organic photovoltaic cells

Indexed keywords

AIR STABILITY; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGED DEFECTS; CHEMICAL TREATMENTS; COMBINED TREATMENT; DEFECT ENGINEERING; DEFECT SITES; EFFECTIVE DOPING; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; ELECTRICAL DEFECTS; ELECTRONIC APPLICATION; ELECTRONIC DEFECTS; ELECTROPHILES; EXCITON DIFFUSION LENGTH; FILL FACTOR; INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; LITHIUM ALUMINUM HYDRIDE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; P-TYPE DOPING; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); REGIO-REGULAR; SERIES RESISTANCES; SHUNT RESISTANCES;

CARRIER MOBILITY; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; DEFECT DENSITY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LITHIUM; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

DEFECTS;

POLY(3 HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLY(3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; THIOPHENES; TITANIUM;

EID: 80054785316     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am200276x     Document Type: Article

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