Synthesis of conjugated polymers for organic solar cell applications

YJ Cheng, SH Yang, CS Hsu - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Harvesting energy directly from sunlight using photovoltaic technology is considered as
being one of the most important ways to address growing global energy needs using a …

Organic solar cells: An overview

H Hoppe, NS Sariciftci - Journal of materials research, 2004 - cambridge.org
Organic solar cell research has developed during the past 30 years, but especially in the last
decade it has attracted scientific and economic interest triggered by a rapid increase in …

Thin‐film solar cells: an overview

KL Chopra, PD Paulson, V Dutta - Progress in Photovoltaics …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Thin film solar cells (TFSC) are a promising approach for terrestrial and space photovoltaics
and offer a wide variety of choices in terms of the device design and fabrication. A variety of …

Electron and ambipolar transport in organic field-effect transistors

J Zaumseil, H Sirringhaus - Chemical reviews, 2007 - ACS Publications
Ever since the first field-effect transistors (FETs) based on polymer1-3 and small molecule4,
5 semiconductors were reported, interest in this field has risen steadily for both technological …

Recent progress in polymer solar cells: manipulation of polymer: fullerene morphology and the formation of efficient inverted polymer solar cells

LM Chen, Z Hong, G Li, Y Yang - Advanced materials, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer morphology has proven to be extremely important in determining the optoelectronic
properties in polymer‐based devices. The understanding and manipulation of polymer …

Morphology evolution via self-organization and lateral and vertical diffusion in polymer: fullerene solar cell blends

M Campoy-Quiles, T Ferenczi, T Agostinelli… - Nature materials, 2008 - nature.com
Control of blend morphology at the microscopic scale is critical for optimizing the power
conversion efficiency of plastic solar cells based on blends of conjugated polymer with …

Solution-processable infrared photodetectors: Materials, device physics, and applications

N Li, P Mahalingavelar, JH Vella, DS Leem… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This review is written to introduce infrared photon detectors based on solution-processable
semiconductors. A new generation of solution-processable photon detectors have been …

Influence of blend microstructure on bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic performance

CJ Brabec, M Heeney, I McCulloch… - Chemical Society …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The performance of organic photovoltaic devices based upon bulk heterojunction blends of
donor and acceptor materials has been shown to be highly dependent on the thin film …

Interface investigation and engineering–achieving high performance polymer photovoltaic devices

LM Chen, Z Xu, Z Hong, Y Yang - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The contact between the polymer active layer and the electrode is one the most critical
interfaces in polymer solar cells. In this article, we report the progress of interface …

6 Studies of spin-coated polymer films

K Norrman, A Ghanbari-Siahkali… - Annual Reports Section" C …, 2005 - pubs.rsc.org
Spin-coating is widely employed for the highly reproducible fabrication of thin film coatings
over large areas with high structural uniformity. Research in recent years has extended the …