Recent advances in high performance donor-acceptor polymers for organic photovoltaics

S Holliday, Y Li, CK Luscombe - Progress in Polymer Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Organic photovoltaic cells made with semiconducting polymers remain one of the most
promising technologies for low-cost solar energy due to their compatibility with roll-to-roll …

Designing high performance conjugated materials for photovoltaic cells with the aid of intramolecular noncovalent interactions

Y Liu, J Song, Z Bo - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic semiconductors including conjugated polymers and small molecules can be
applied in many fields due to their unique advantages, such as light weight, solution …

Semi-crystalline photovoltaic polymers with efficiency exceeding 9% in a∼ 300 nm thick conventional single-cell device

TL Nguyen, H Choi, SJ Ko, MA Uddin… - Energy & …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a series of semi-crystalline, low band gap (LBG) polymers and demonstrate the
fabrication of highly efficient polymer solar cells (PSCs) in a thick single-cell architecture …

Interplay of intramolecular noncovalent coulomb interactions for semicrystalline photovoltaic polymers

MA Uddin, TH Lee, S Xu, SY Park, T Kim… - Chemistry of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Four different kinds of photovoltaic polymers were synthesized by controlling the intrachain
noncovalent coulomb interactions through the incorporation of alkoxy-or alkylthio-substituted …

Benzotriazole-containing planar conjugated polymers with noncovalent conformational locks for thermally stable and efficient polymer field-effect transistors

S Yum, TK An, X Wang, W Lee, MA Uddin… - Chemistry of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report a series of benzotriazole-based semicrystalline π-conjugated polymers with
noncovalent conformational locks for applications in polymer field-effect transistors. The …

Optimizing the performance of conjugated polymers in organic photovoltaic cells by traversing group 16

M Jeffries-EL, BM Kobilka, BJ Hale - Macromolecules, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conjugated polymers are organic semiconductors that have emerged over the past few
decades as promising alternatives to inorganic semiconductors for use in a range of …

Recent progress in high efficiency polymer solar cells by rational design and energy level tuning of low bandgap copolymers with various electron-withdrawing units

JW Jung, JW Jo, EH Jung, WH Jo - Organic Electronics, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract This review collects recent five-year publications on low bandgap semiconducting
polymers, which are composed of electron donor (D) and electron acceptor (A) units …

Semicrystalline D–A copolymers with different chain curvature for applications in polymer optoelectronic devices

W Lee, GH Kim, SJ Ko, S Yum, S Hwang, S Cho… - …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Thiophene-and thienothiophene-based donor–acceptor (D–A) type semicrystalline
copolymers with different backbone curvatures, PTBT14 and PTTBT14, were designed and …

Highly efficient plasmonic organic optoelectronic devices based on a conducting polymer electrode incorporated with silver nanoparticles

SJ Ko, H Choi, W Lee, T Kim, BR Lee… - Energy & …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Highly efficient ITO-free polymeric electronic devices were successfully demonstrated by
replacement of the ITO electrode with a solution-processed PEDOT: PSS electrode …

A strategy to design a donor–π–acceptor polymeric hole conductor for an efficient perovskite solar cell

GW Kim, J Kim, GY Lee, G Kang… - Advanced Energy …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A strategy for developing a novel donor–π–acceptor conducting polymeric hole transport
material (TTB–TTQ) based on thiophene and benzothiadiazole as an alternative to spiro …