Polyterthiophenes as donors for polymer solar cells

Markus Koppe; Markus Scharber; Christoph Brabec; Warren Duffy; Martin Heeney; Iain McCulloch

doi:10.1002/adfm.200600859

Polyterthiophenes as donors for polymer solar cells

Markus Koppe, Markus Scharber, Christoph Brabec, Warren Duffy, Martin Heeney, Iain McCulloch

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Thiophene-containing polymers blended with fullerenes have recently demonstrated impressively high photovoltaic efficiencies. One drawback of this class of polymers is their relatively low ionization potential, which leads to rather low open-circuit voltages. Polyterthiophenes belong to a material class that has recently captured a large amount of interest for polymer electronic applications because of its excellent transport properties. Because of the slightly lower ionization potential, this material class appears more attractive for photovoltaic applications than polythiophenes. In this work, the photovoltaic performance of bulk heterojunction solar cells from polyterthiophene/fullerene composites is discussed and compared to the polymer/fullerene blend morphology. © 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1371-1376
Number of pages	6
Journal	Advanced Functional Materials
Volume	17
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.200600859
State	Published - May 21 2007
Externally published	Yes

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Electrochemistry
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Condensed Matter Physics

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