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Tuning Side Chain and Main Chain Order in a Prototypical Donor–Acceptor Copolymer: Implications for Optical, Electronic, and Photovoltaic Characteristics

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Elementary Processes in Organic Photovoltaics

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The recent development of donor–acceptor copolymers has led to an enormous improvement in the performance of organic solar cells and organic field-effect transistors. Here we describe the synthesis, detailed characterisation, and application of a series of structurally modified copolymers to investigate fundamental structure–property relationships in this class of conjugated polymers. The interplay between chemical structure and optoelectronic properties is investigated. These are further correlated to the charge transport and solar cell performance, which allows us to link their chemical structure to the observed physical properties.

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Acknowledgment

The authors thank the DFG for funding within the DFG Priority Program 1355 “Elementary Processes of Organic Photovoltaics.” This report is based on results obtained by the collaboration of project no. 15 (“Tuning the Optical and Charge-Transporting Properties of the Electron-Accepting Phase in Polymer Solar Cells”) and project number 11 (“Electronic Properties of Interfaces with Conjugated Polymers and Polyelectrolytes”).

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  1. Soft Matter Photonics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, KY16 9SS, St Andrews, UK

    Marcel Schubert

  2. Institut für Physik and IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 6, 12489, Berlin, Germany

    Johannes Frisch & Norbert Koch

  3. Macromolecular Chemistry and Institute for Polymer Technology, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Gaußstraße 20, 42119, Wuppertal, Germany

    Sybille Allard, Eduard Preis & Ullrich Scherf

  4. Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 12489, Berlin, Germany

    Norbert Koch

  5. Physics of Soft Matter, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476, Potsdam, Germany

    Dieter Neher

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Schubert, M. et al. (2017). Tuning Side Chain and Main Chain Order in a Prototypical Donor–Acceptor Copolymer: Implications for Optical, Electronic, and Photovoltaic Characteristics. In: Leo, K. (eds) Elementary Processes in Organic Photovoltaics. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 272. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28338-8_10

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