Enhancement of the Power Conversion Efficiency in Organic Photovoltaics by Unveiling the Appropriate Polymer Backbone Enlargement Approach

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1840-1848

  Chochos, Christos L ^a,b   Singh, Ranbir ^c   Kim, Min ^c   Gasparini, Nicola ^d   Katsouras, Athanasios ^a   Kulshreshtha, Chandramouli ^c   Gregoriou, Vasilis G ^b,e   Keivanidis, Panagiotis E ^f   Ameri, Tayebeh ^d   Brabec, Christoph J ^d,g   Cho, Kilwon ^c   Avgeropoulos, Apostolos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b Advent Technologies SA   (Greece)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

^f CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^g BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

Author keywords

morphology; organic electronics; polymer semiconductors; recombination dynamics; supramolecular assembly

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE; BOND LENGTH; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMER FILMS; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; POLYMER SEMICONDUCTORS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RECOMBINATION DYNAMICS; STRUCTURE-PROPERTIES RELATIONS; SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 84961782876     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201504953     Document Type: Article

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