Cyclopentadithiophene-benzothiadiazole oligomers: Synthesis via direct arylation, X-ray crystallography, optical properties, solution casted field-effect transistor and photovoltaic characteristics

Organic Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2967-2974

  Chang, Shu Wei ^a   Waters, Huw ^b   Kettle, Jeff ^b   Horie, Masaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conjugated oligomers; Direct arylation; Organic photovoltaic devices; Sensitiser; X ray single crystallography

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HOLE MOBILITY; OLIGOMERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; X RAYS;

ARYLATIONS; CONJUGATED OLIGOMER; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE; INTERMOLECULAR DISTANCE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CHARACTERISTICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SENSITISER;

X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84867236125     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2012.08.023     Document Type: Article

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