Fine-tuning of fluorinated thieno[3,4-b]thiophene copolymer for efficient polymer solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4358-4363

  Wang, Hangxing ^a   Yu, Xinfei ^a   Yi, Chao ^a   Ren, He ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Yang, Yali ^b   Xiao, Steven ^b   Zheng, Jie ^a   Karim, Alamgir ^a   Cheng, Stephen Z D ^a   Gong, Xiong ^a  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

^b 1 Material ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORINATED COPOLYMERS; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; INVERTED POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOACTIVE POLYMERS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; THIENO[3 ,4-B]THIOPHENE; THIN FILM MORPHOLOGY;

COPOLYMERS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FLUORINE; MORPHOLOGY; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; THIOPHENE;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84874911602     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp311031s     Document Type: Article

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