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A Nature-Inspired Conjugated Polymer for High Performance Transistors and Solar Cells

Fallon, KJ; Wijeyasinghe, N; Yaacobi-Gross, N; Ashraf, RS; Freeman, DME; Palgrave, RG; Al-Hashimi, M; ... Bronstein, H; + view all (2015) A Nature-Inspired Conjugated Polymer for High Performance Transistors and Solar Cells. Macromolecules , 48 (15) pp. 5148-5154. 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00542. Green open access

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Abstract

A novel, highly soluble chromophore for use in organic electronics based on an indigoid structure is reported. Copolymerization with thiophene affords an extremely narrow band gap polymer with a maximum absorption at ∼800 nm. The novel polymer exhibits high crystallinity and high ambipolar transport in OFET devices of 0.23 cm2 V–1 s–1 for holes and 0.48 cm2 V–1 s–1 for electrons. OPV device efficiencies up to 2.35% with light absorbance up to 950 nm demonstrate the potential for this novel chromophore in near-IR photovoltaics.

Type: Article
Title: A Nature-Inspired Conjugated Polymer for High Performance Transistors and Solar Cells
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00542
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00542
Language: English
Additional information: This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Macromolecules, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00542.
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1477453
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