Conjugated moiety effect on blend film phase separation and photovoltaic properties of benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene-containing coplanar donor-acceptor copolymers

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 108, Issue , 2013, Pages 136-145

  Yaowen, Li ^a,b   Chen, Liwei ^b   Chen, Yujin ^a   Li, Chao ^a   Zhang, Pan ^a   Gao, Lingfeng ^a   Yang, Xiaoming ^a   Tu, Yingfeng ^a   Zhu, Xiulin ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

Author keywords

Coplanar alternative copolymers; Hierarchical lamella structures; Photovoltaic devices

Indexed keywords

2 ,1 ,3-BENZOTHIADIAZOLE; BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; BLEND FILMS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; CRYSTAL DOMAIN SIZE; CRYSTAL GRAIN SIZE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURAL; DOMAIN SIZE; DONOR UNITS; DONOR-ACCEPTOR COPOLYMERS; ELECTRON-ACCEPTING; ELECTRON-DONATING; EXCITON DIFFUSION LENGTH; LAMELLA STRUCTURES; LUMO ENERGY LEVELS; METHYL ESTERS; PACKING STRUCTURE; PHASE SEPARATION BEHAVIOR; PHASE SEPARATION STRUCTURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; POLYMER PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TEM OBSERVATIONS; XRD;

BUTYRIC ACID; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; THIOPHENE;

COPOLYMERS;

EID: 84867417472     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.09.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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