Recent progress in the design of narrow bandgap conjugated polymers for high-efficiency organic solar cells

Progress in Polymer Science

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1292-1331

  Bian, Linyi ^a   Zhu, Enwei ^a   Tang, Jian ^a   Tang, Weihua ^a   Zhang, Fujun ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Narrow bandgap polymer; Polymer solar cells

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CRITICAL REVIEW; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; DEVICE PARAMETERS; NARROW BAND GAP; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMER STRUCTURE; RATIONAL DESIGN; RECENT PROGRESS; SPECIAL PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL SUMMARY; STRUCTURE-PROPERTY CORRELATION;

EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SOLAR CELLS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 84865043127     PISSN: 00796700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2012.03.001     Document Type: Review

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