Pronounced Cosolvent Effects in Polymer:Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Sulfur-Rich Electron-Donating and Imide-Containing Electron-Accepting Polymers

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 29, 2015, Pages 15995-16002

  Nam, Sungho ^a,b   Woo, Sungho ^c   Seo, Jooyeok ^a   Kim, Wook Hyun ^c   Kim, Hwajeong ^a   McNeill, Christopher R ^d   Shin, Tae Joo ^e   Bradley, Donal D C ^b   Kim, Youngkyoo ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

cosolvents; degradation; nanostructure; polymer:polymer solar cells; stability

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEGRADATION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NAPHTHALENE; SOLAR CELLS; SPINNING (FIBERS);

COSOLVENTS; DEVICE OPTIMIZATION; DONOR-ACCEPTOR BLENDS; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; ELECTRON ACCEPTING POLYMERS; POLYMER BULK HETEROJUNCTIONS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84938633992     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b04224     Document Type: Article

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