Photobleaching of organic fluorophores: quantitative characterization, mechanisms, protection

AP Demchenko - Methods and applications in fluorescence, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Photochemical stability is one of the most important parameters that determine the
usefulness of organic dyes in different applications. This Review addresses key factors that …

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 …

Linear and nonlinear optical responses of nitrobenzofurazan-sulfide derivatives: DFT-QTAIM investigation on twisted intramolecular charge transfer

B Abdelaziz, I Chérif, B Gassoumi… - The Journal of …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
In this study, we report on the green fluorescence exhibited by nitrobenzofurazan-sulfide
derivatives (NBD-S i, i= 1–4). The optical responses of these studied compounds in a polar …

Highly efficient halogen-free solvent processed small-molecule organic solar cells enabled by material design and device engineering

J Wan, X Xu, G Zhang, Y Li, K Feng… - Energy & Environmental …, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Low bandgap small molecules, BDTTNTTR and BDTSTNTTR, with benzo [1, 2-b: 4, 5-b′]
dithiophene (BDT) as the central donor unit and naphtho [1, 2-c: 5, 6-c′] bis [1, 2, 5] …

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 …

Progress in the enhancement of electro-optic coefficients and orientation stability for organic second-order nonlinear optical materials

J Liu, C Ouyang, F Huo, W He, A Cao - Dyes and Pigments, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Compared with traditional inorganic second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) materials, organic
second-order NLO materials have many advantages in bandwidth, dielectric constant, half …

Improvement of open-circuit voltage and photovoltaic properties of 2D-conjugated polymers by alkylthio substitution

C Cui, WY Wong, Y Li - Energy & Environmental Science, 2014‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Low bandgap and two-dimensional (2D)-conjugated copolymers based on benzo [1, 2-b: 4,
5-b′] dithiophene with conjugated thiophene side chains (BDTT) and thieno [3, 4-b] …

Electric field poled organic electro-optic materials: state of the art and future prospects

LR Dalton, PA Sullivan, DH Bale - Chemical reviews, 2010‏ - ACS Publications
Information is created, processed, transported, and detected using electrons, photons,
phonons, or plasmons. Of these basic components of information technology, utilization of …

Side-chain engineering of high-efficiency conjugated polymer photovoltaic materials

ZG Zhang, Y Li - Science China Chemistry, 2015‏ - Springer
In recent years, conjugated polymers have attracted great attention in the application as
photovoltaic donor materials in polymer solar cells (PSCs). Broad absorption, lower-energy …

Broadband terahertz characterization of the refractive index and absorption of some important polymeric and organic electro-optic materials

PD Cunningham, NN Valdes, FA Vallejo… - Journal of applied …, 2011‏ - pubs.aip.org
We report broad bandwidth, 0.1–10 THz time-domain spectroscopy of linear and electro-
optic polymers. The common THz optical component materials high-density polyethylene …