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

abstract

• 2015 American Chemical Society. 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.

authors

• Al-Hashimi (FRSC), Mohammed

published proceedings

• MACROMOLECULES

altmetric score

• 3.25

author list (cited authors)

• Fallon, K. J., Wijeyasinghe, N., Yaacobi-Gross, N., Ashraf, R. S., Freeman, D., Palgrave, R. G., ... Bronstein, H.

citation count

• 46

complete list of authors

• Fallon, Kealan J||Wijeyasinghe, Nilushi||Yaacobi-Gross, Nir||Ashraf, Raja S||Freeman, David ME||Palgrave, Robert G||Al-Hashimi, Mohammed||Marks, Tobin J||McCulloch, Iain||Anthopoulos, Thomas D||Bronstein, Hugo

publication date

• August 2015

publisher

• American Chemical Society (ACS)  Publisher

published in

• MACROMOLECULES  Journal

keywords

• 34 Chemical Sciences
• 3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry
• 40 Engineering
• 4016 Materials Engineering

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00542

start page

• 5148

end page

• 5154

volume

• 48

issue

• 15

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00542