Bulk heterojunction solar cells: morphology and performance relationships

Y Huang, EJ Kramer, AJ Heeger, GC Bazan - Chemical reviews, 2014‏ - ACS Publications
With the hope of solving the present energy crisis and associated environmental issues,
much research has been focused on solar cells that can harvest energy directly from …

Organic thin film transistors: structures, models, materials, fabrication, and applications: a review

B Kumar, BK Kaushik, YS Negi - Polymer Reviews, 2014‏ - Taylor & Francis
Organic thin film transistor (OTFT) based device modeling and circuit application is a rapidly
emerging research area. Taking cognizance of this fact, our paper reviews various basic to …

A general relationship between disorder, aggregation and charge transport in conjugated polymers

R Noriega, J Rivnay, K Vandewal, FPV Koch… - Nature materials, 2013‏ - nature.com
Conjugated polymer chains have many degrees of conformational freedom and interact
weakly with each other, resulting in complex microstructures in the solid state …

Molecular design and ordering effects in π-functional materials for transistor and solar cell applications

PM Beaujuge, JMJ Fréchet - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2011‏ - ACS Publications
Organic electronics are broadly anticipated to impact the development of flexible thin-film
device technologies. Among these, solution-processable π-conjugated polymers and small …

Ultrahigh mobility in polymer field-effect transistors by design

HN Tsao, DM Cho, I Park, MR Hansen… - Journal of the …, 2011‏ - ACS Publications
In this article, the design paradigm involving molecular weight, alkyl substituents, and
donor− acceptor interaction for the poly [2, 6-(4, 4-bis-alkyl-4 H-cyclopenta [2, 1-b; 3, 4-b′] …

Side-chain tunability of furan-containing low-band-gap polymers provides control of structural order in efficient solar cells

AT Yiu, PM Beaujuge, OP Lee, CH Woo… - Journal of the …, 2012‏ - ACS Publications
The solution-processability of conjugated polymers in organic solvents has classically been
achieved by modulating the size and branching of alkyl substituents appended to the …

Structural and dynamic disorder, not ionic trap**, controls charge transport in highly doped conducting polymers

IE Jacobs, G d'Avino, V Lemaur, Y Lin… - Journal of the …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Doped organic semiconductors are critical to emerging device applications, including
thermoelectrics, bioelectronics, and neuromorphic computing devices. It is commonly …

Correlations between mechanical and electrical properties of polythiophenes

B O'Connor, EP Chan, C Chan, BR Conrad… - ACS …, 2010‏ - ACS Publications
The elastic moduli of polythiophenes, regioregular poly (3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT) and poly-
(2, 5-bis (3-alkylthiophene-2-yl) thieno [3, 2-b] thiophene)(pBTTT), are compared to their …

Advancements for organic thin film transistors: Structures, materials, performance parameters, influencing factors, models, fabrication, reliability and applications

P Mittal, S Yadav, S Negi - Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2021‏ - Elsevier
This paper highlights the recent progress for organic small molecule and polymer type thin
film transistors (OTFTs). In order to better understand the conduction process and map** …

Structural origin of gap states in semicrystalline polymers and the implications for charge transport

J Rivnay, R Noriega, JE Northrup, RJ Kline… - Physical Review B …, 2011‏ - APS
We quantify the degree of paracrystalline disorder in the π-π stacking direction of crystallites
of a high performing semicrystalline semiconducting polymer with advanced x-ray line …