Highly crystalline and low bandgap donor polymers for efficient polymer solar cells

Advanced Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 538-542

  Liu, Jun ^a   Choi, Hyosung ^b   Kim, Jin Young ^b   Bailey, Chris ^c   Durstock, Michael ^c   Dai, Liming ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

conjugated polymers; coplanar configuration; crystallinity; high temperature solution processing; polymer solar cells

Indexed keywords

BRIDGING UNITS; COPLANAR CONFIGURATION; CRYSTALLINITIES; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; HIGH-TEMPERATURE SOLUTION PROCESSING; LOW BANDGAP; MAIN CHAINS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SIDE-CHAINS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ENERGY GAP; ETHYLENE; POLYMER BLENDS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; POLYMERS; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84862908321     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201103623     Document Type: Article

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