Unraveling the chromophoric disorder of poly(3-hexylthiophene)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 38, 2013, Pages

  Thiessen, Alexander ^a   Vogelsang, Jan ^b   Adachi, Takuji ^b,c,d   Steiner, Florian ^b   Vanden Bout, David ^c,d   Lupton, John M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformational disorder; Organic solar cells; Photophysics; Structure property relations

Indexed keywords

POLY(3 HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLYMER; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATOPHORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTROSCOPY;

CONFORMATIONAL DISORDER; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOPHYSICS; STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONS;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; POLYMERS; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THIOPHENES;

EID: 84884296858     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307760110     Document Type: Article

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