A Thieno[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene Isoindigo Building Block for Additive- and Annealing-Free High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells

Advanced Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 32, 2015, Pages 4702-4707

  Yue, Wan ^a   Ashraf, Raja Shahid ^a   Nielsen, Christian B ^a   Collado Fregoso, Elisa ^a   Niazi, Muhammad R ^b   Yousaf, Syeda Amber ^c   Kirkus, Mindaugas ^a   Chen, Hung Yang ^a   Amassian, Aram ^b   Durrant, James R ^a   McCulloch, Iain ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^c GC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

additive free; annealing free; molecular weight; solar cells; thieno 3,2 b 1 benzothiophene isoindigo

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; ANNEALING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERS; THIOPHENE;

ANNEALING-FREE; CHARGE MOBILITIES; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; HIGH-MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYMERS; ISOINDIGO; PHOTOACTIVE POLYMERS; SOLAR CELL DEVICES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84939485184     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201501841     Document Type: Article

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