Development of New Semiconducting Polymers for High Performance Solar Cells
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- 18 December 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 131 (1), 56-57
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja808373p
Abstract
A new low band gap semiconducting polymer, PTB1, was synthesized and found promising for solar energy harvesting. Simple polymer solar cells based on PTB1 and methanofullerene [6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl esters (PC71BM) exhibit a solar conversion efficiency of 5.6%. An external quantum efficiency of 67% and fill-factor of 65% are achieved, both of which are among the highest values reported for a solar cell system based on a low band gap polymer.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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