The influence of alkoxy substitutions on the properties of diketopyrrolopyrrole-phenyl copolymers for solar cells

Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3022-3034

  George, Zandra ^a   Kroon, Renee ^a   Gehlhaar, Robert ^b   Gbabode, Gabin ^c   Lundin, Angelica ^a   Hellström, Stefan ^a   Müller, Christian ^a   Geerts, Yves ^c   Heremans, Paul ^b   Andersson, Mats R ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conjugated polymers; Density functional theory (DFT); DPP; Organic solar cells; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

DIKETOPYRROLOPYRROLES; DPP; MELTING AND CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURES; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; COPOLYMERS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FULLERENES; OLIGOMERS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SOLAR CELLS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 84881270783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma6073022     Document Type: Article

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