Effects of the molecular weight and the side-chain length on the photovoltaic performance of dithienosilole/thienopyrrolodione copolymers

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2345-2351

  Chu, Ta Ya ^a   Lu, Jianping ^a   Beaupré, Serge ^b   Zhang, Yanguang ^a   Pouliot, Jean Rémi ^b   Zhou, Jiayun ^a   Najari, Ahmed ^b   Leclerc, Mario ^b   Tao, Ye ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

fullerenes; photovoltaic devices; polymeric materials; solar cells

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; ALKYL CHAIN LENGTHS; ALTERNATING COPOLYMER; BLEND FILMS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; DITHIENOSILOLE; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FILL FACTOR; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; METHYL ESTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLYMER MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SERIES RESISTANCES; SIDE-CHAINS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS;

CHAIN LENGTH; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPOLYMERS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84861830193     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201102623     Document Type: Article

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