Dependence of crystallite formation and preferential backbone orientations on the side chain pattern in PBDTTPD polymers

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 19477-19481

  El Labban, Abdulrahman ^a   Warnan, Julien ^a   Cabanetos, Clément ^a   Ratel, Olivier ^a   Tassone, Christopher ^b   Toney, Michael F ^b   Beaujuge, Pierre M ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backbone orientation; Benzo 1,2 b:4,5 b dithiophene; Polymer crystallite; Side chain; Thieno 3,4 c pyrrole 4,6 dione; conjugated polymers

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CRYSTALLITES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SELF ASSEMBLY; THIN FILM CIRCUITS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION (BHJ); FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR (FETS); FILM-FORMING PROPERTIES; ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES; POLYMER CRYSTALLITES; PREFERENTIAL ORIENTATION; SIDE-CHAINS; THIENO[3,4-C]PYRROLE-4,6-DIONE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84914689013     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am505280a     Document Type: Article

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