High-Performance Organic Solar Cells Based on a Small Molecule with Alkylthio-Thienyl-Conjugated Side Chains without Extra Treatments

Advanced Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 45, 2015, Pages 7469-7475

  Cui, Chaohua ^a   Guo, Xia ^a   Min, Jie ^b   Guo, Bing ^a   Cheng, Xiao ^a   Zhang, Maojie ^a   Brabec, Christoph J ^b   Li, Yongfang ^a,c  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

conjugated side chains; organic molecules; organic solar cells; solution processability

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; MOLECULES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CONJUGATED SMALL MOLECULES; DONOR MATERIALS; ORGANIC MOLECULES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SIDE-CHAINS; SMALL MOLECULES; SOLUTION PROCESSABILITY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84949204320     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201503815     Document Type: Article

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