Polymer/polymer blend solar cells with 2.0% efficiency developed by thermal purification of nanoscale-phase-separated morphology

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2924-2927

  Mori, Daisuke ^a   Benten, Hiroaki ^a   Kosaka, Junya ^a   Ohkita, Hideo ^a,b   Ito, Shinzaburo ^a   Miyake, Kunihito ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

conjugated polymer blends; fluorene based copolymer; morphology; phase separation; poly(3 hexylthiophene); polymer photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; CHLOROFORM SOLUTIONS; ELECTRON DONORS; FLUORENE-BASED COPOLYMER; O-DICHLOROBENZENE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLYMER PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARRIER MOBILITY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASTIC COATINGS; POLYMER BLENDS; PURIFICATION;

PHASE SEPARATION;

2 DICHLOROBENZENE; 2-DICHLOROBENZENE; CHLOROBENZENE; CHLOROFORM; FLUORESCENT DYE; POLY(3 HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLY(3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLYMER; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE;

CHLOROBENZENES; CHLOROFORM; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE; THIOPHENES;

EID: 84855163341     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am200624s     Document Type: Article

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