Recent advances in bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells

L Lu, T Zheng, Q Wu, AM Schneider, D Zhao… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
It is clear that the current energy regimen, which relies on nonrenewable and polluting
energy sources, has unsustainable consequences for societal, economical, geopolitical, and …

Low bandgap semiconducting polymers for polymeric photovoltaics

C Liu, K Wang, X Gong, AJ Heeger - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In order to develop high performance polymer solar cells (PSCs), full exploitation of the sun-
irradiation from ultraviolet (UV) to near infrared (NIR) is one of the key factors to ensure high …

Rational design of high performance conjugated polymers for organic solar cells

H Zhou, L Yang, W You - Macromolecules, 2012 - ACS Publications
The research on the polymer-based solar cells (PSCs) has attracted an increasing amount
of attention in recent years because PSCs pose potential advantages over mainstream …

π-Conjugated polymers for organic electronics and photovoltaic cell applications

A Facchetti - Chemistry of Materials, 2011 - ACS Publications
The optoelectronic properties of polymeric semiconductor materials can be utilized for the
fabrication of organic electronic and photonic devices. When key structural requirements are …

Recent advances in molecular design of functional conjugated polymers for high-performance polymer solar cells

CC Chueh, AKY Jen - Progress in Polymer Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Continuous improvements have been made to drive the impressive progress of solution-
processed bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells (BHJ PSCs), in which the rationally …

Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based materials for organic photovoltaics

S Qu, H Tian - Chemical Communications, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) pigments have been widely used in inks, paints, and plastics
since it was first developed back in the early 1970s. The DPP-based materials were …

Polymers for electronics and spintronics

P Bujak, I Kulszewicz-Bajer, M Zagorska… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
This critical review is devoted to semiconducting and high spin polymers which are of great
scientific interest in view of further development of the organic electronics and the emerging …

Poly (diketopyrrolopyrrole− terthiophene) for Ambipolar Logic and Photovoltaics

JC Bijleveld, AP Zoombelt… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
A new semiconducting polymer, PDPP3T, with alternating diketopyrrolopyrrole and
terthiophene units is presented. PDPP3T has a small band gap of 1.3 eV and exhibits nearly …

Electroactive materials for organic electronics: preparation strategies, structural aspects and characterization techniques

A Pron, P Gawrys, M Zagorska, D Djurado… - Chemical Society …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
This critical review discusses specific chemical and physicochemical requirements which
must be met for organic compounds to be considered as promising materials for applications …

Improved charge transport and absorption coefficient in indacenodithieno [3, 2‐b] thiophene‐based ladder‐type polymer leading to highly efficient polymer solar cells

YX Xu, CC Chueh, HL Yip, FZ Ding, YX Li… - Advanced …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The development of donor-acceptor (DA) based bulkheterojunction (BHJ) polymer solar
cells (PSCs) has made significant progress in the past decade. In particular, power …