Molecular packing and solar cell performance in blends of polymers with a bisadduct fullerene

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1566-1570

  Miller, Nichole Cates ^a   Sweetnam, Sean ^a   Hoke, Eric T ^a,b   Gysel, Roman ^a   Miller, Chad E ^a,c   Bartelt, Jonathan A ^a   Xie, Xinxin ^a   Toney, Michael F ^c   McGehee, Michael D ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

molecular packing; Organic materials; solar cells; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

BIS-ADDUCTS; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; METHYL ESTERS; MIXED DOMAINS; MOLECULAR PACKINGS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; POLYMER SIDE-CHAINS; SIDE-CHAINS; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

FULLERENES; SOLAR CELLS; THIOPHENE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

POLYMERS;

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FULLERENES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84858171043     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl204421p     Document Type: Article

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