Organic solar cells using a high-molecular-weight benzodithiophene-benzothiadiazole copolymer with an efficiency of 9.4%

Advanced Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 702-705

  Subbiah, Jegadesan ^a   Purushothaman, Balaji ^a   Chen, Ming ^b   Qin, Tianshi ^b   Gao, Mei ^b   Vak, Doojin ^b   Scholes, Fiona H ^b   Chen, Xiwen ^b   Watkins, Scott E ^b   Wilson, Gerard J ^b   Holmes, Andrew B ^a,b   Wong, Wallace W H ^a   Jones, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Interface engineering; Molecular weight control; Morphology; Organic solar cell

Indexed keywords

CELL ENGINEERING; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; WEIGHT CONTROL;

BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; DONOR-ACCEPTOR CONJUGATED POLYMERS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; INTERFACE ENGINEERING; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SUZUKI POLYCONDENSATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84921497785     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201403080     Document Type: Article

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