Efficient small molecule bulk heterojunction solar cells with high fill factors via pyrene-directed molecular self-assembly

Advanced Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 45, 2011, Pages 5359-5363

  Lee, Olivia P ^a,b   Yiu, Alan T ^a,b   Beaujuge, Pierre M ^a,b,c   Woo, Claire H ^a,b   Holcombe, Thomas W ^a   Millstone, Jill E ^a,b   Douglas, Jessica D ^a,b   Chen, Mark S ^a   Fréchet, Jean M J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

donor acceptor small molecules; organic photovoltaics; pyrene; self assembly

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CRYSTAL PACKINGS; DIKETOPYRROLOPYRROLES; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; ELECTROACTIVE; END-GROUPS; HIGH FILLS; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; MOLECULAR SELF ASSEMBLY; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; SMALL MOLECULES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; MOLECULES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PYRENE; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

PYRENE; PYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; POWER SUPPLY; SUNLIGHT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; PYRENES; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 82455179556     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201103177     Document Type: Article

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