Effect of a long alkyl group on cyclopentadithiophene as a conjugated bridge for D-A-π-A organic sensitizers: IPCE, electron diffusion length, and charge recombination

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 14621-14630

  Chai, Qipeng ^a   Li, Wenqin ^a,b   Wu, Yongzhen ^a   Pei, Kai ^a   Liu, Jingchuan ^a   Geng, Zhiyuan ^c   Tian, He ^a   Zhu, Weihong ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI SECOND POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

alkyl group; conjugation bridge; electron diffusion length; organic sensitizers; photovoltaic efficiency; solar cells

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ALKYL GROUPS; CHARGE TRANSFER RESISTANCE; ELECTRON DIFFUSION LENGTH; ORGANIC SENSITIZERS; PHOTO-VOLTAIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; QUANTUM CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; SPECTRAL RESPONSE REGION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84906821039     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am503891q     Document Type: Article

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