Controlling the Morphology and Performance of Bulk Heterojunctions in Solar Cells. Lessons Learned from the Benchmark Poly(3-hexylthiophene):[6,6]-Phenyl-C61 …

MT Dang, L Hirsch, G Wantz, JD Wuest - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Photovoltaic cells are an established and increasingly important technology for the
production of renewable energy. 1 Despite the expanding use of inorganic semiconductors …

[HTML][HTML] Semiconductors for organic transistors

A Facchetti - materials today, 2007 - Elsevier
Organic molecules/polymers with a π-conjugated (hetero) aromatic backbone are capable of
transporting charge and interact efficiently with light. Therefore, these systems can act as …

Multi-phase semicrystalline microstructures drive exciton dissociation in neat plastic semiconductors

F Paquin, J Rivnay, A Salleo, N Stingelin… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2013 - arxiv.org
The optoelectronic properties of macromolecular semiconductors depend fundamentally on
their solid-state microstructure. For example, the molecular-weight distribution influences …

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 …

Toward printed integrated circuits based on unipolar or ambipolar polymer semiconductors

KJ Baeg, M Caironi, YY Noh - Advanced Materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
For at least the past ten years printed electronics has promised to revolutionize our daily life
by making cost‐effective electronic circuits and sensors available through mass production …

High detectivity all‐printed organic photodiodes

A Pierre, I Deckman, PB Lechêne… - Advanced …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201502238 properties of each printed layer, device yield is maximized
with minimal variability over large areas. The performance of allprinted photodiodes …

Systematic investigation of isoindigo-based polymeric field-effect transistors: design strategy and impact of polymer symmetry and backbone curvature

T Lei, Y Cao, X Zhou, Y Peng, J Bian… - Chemistry of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Ten isoindigo-based polymers were synthesized, and their photophysical and
electrochemical properties and device performances were systematically investigated. The …

[HTML][HTML] Polymer semiconductor crystals

JA Lim, F Liu, S Ferdous, M Muthukumar, AL Briseno - Materials Today, 2010 - Elsevier
One of the long-standing challenges in the field of polymer semiconductors is to figure out
how long interpenetrating and entangled polymer chains self-assemble into single crystals …

Polymeric solar cells based on P3HT: PCBM: Role of the casting solvent

MT Dang, G Wantz, H Bejbouji, M Urien… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2011 - Elsevier
Polymeric photovoltaic (PV) solar cells have been fabricated using six solvents: chloroform
(CHCl3), toluene (T), chlorobenzene (CB), orthodichlorobenzene (ODCB), 1, 2, 3, 4 …

A comprehensive review on poly (3-alkylthiophene)-based crystalline structures, protocols and electronic applications

S Agbolaghi, S Zenoozi - Organic Electronics, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Poly (3-alkylthiophenes)(P3ATs) particularly poly (3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT) have
vigorous tendency to crystallize into the ordered morphologies, thereby reflect the efficient …