Solar cell efficiency, self-assembly, and dipole-dipole interactions of isomorphic narrow-band-gap molecules

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 134, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 16597-16606

  Takacs, Christopher J ^a   Sun, Yanming ^a   Welch, Gregory C ^a   Perez, Louis A ^a   Liu, Xiaofeng ^a   Wen, Wen ^a   Bazan, Guillermo C ^a   Heeger, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 ,1 ,3-BENZOTHIADIAZOLE; BITHIOPHENES; BUILDING BLOCKES; CONFORMATIONAL STABILITIES; CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR; DIPOLE DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; DONOR UNITS; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON-DEFICIENT; ELECTRON-RICH; GEOMETRIC DESCRIPTION; HETEROCYCLES; LENGTH SCALE; METHYL ESTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER; REGIOCHEMISTRY; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; UV VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; WIDE ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIPOLE MOMENT; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MOLECULES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

CHROMOPHORES;

BENZENE DERIVATIVE; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ESTER DERIVATIVE; METHYL GROUP; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; SILANE DERIVATIVE; THIADIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CELLS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIPOLE; DONOR; ELECTRON; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; FILM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLAR CELL; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84867385427     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja3050713     Document Type: Article

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