Design of Conjugated Polymers for the Optimization of Solar Cell Performance

Barry C. Thompson; Jean Mj Frechet

doi:10.1364/omd.2007.otuc2

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The influence of polythiophene structure on polymer-fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells is described. Regioregularity is found to influence device stability and variation in the identity and distribution of alkyl substituents is found to affect device efficiency.

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