Thiophene-thiazolothiazole copolymers: Significant impact of side chain composition on backbone orientation and solar cell performances

Advanced Materials

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 331-338

  Osaka, Itaru ^a,b,d   Saito, Masahiko ^a   Koganezawa, Tomoyuki ^c   Takimiya, Kazuo ^a,d  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

orientation; semiconducting polymers; side chain; solar cells; thiazolothiazole

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; CO-POLYMER SYSTEMS; SIDE-CHAINS; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; THIAZOLOTHIAZOLE;

CHAINS; COPOLYMERS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; THIOPHENE;

SOLAR CELLS;

INDIUM TIN OXIDE; POLY(3,4 ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE) POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); POLY(3,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE)-POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); POLYMER; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; TIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ORIENTATION; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIDE CHAIN; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; THIAZOLOTHIAZOLE;

ORIENTATION; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; SIDE CHAIN; SOLAR CELLS; THIAZOLOTHIAZOLE;

POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; SOLAR ENERGY; THIAZOLES; THIOPHENES; TIN COMPOUNDS; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC;

EID: 84892599492     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201303059     Document Type: Article

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