A high-molecular-weight conjugated polymer based on alternating electron-rich and electron-deficient fused ring systems provides efficient polymer solar cells when blended with C60 and C70 fullerene… (More)
Diketopyrrolopyrrole-based conjugated polymers bridged with thiazole units and different donors have been designed for polymer solar cells. Quantum efficiencies above 50% have been achieved with… (More)
In organic solar cells, photoexcitation of the donor or acceptor phase can result in different efficiencies for charge generation. We investigate this difference for four different 2-pyridyl… (More)
Incorporating biphenyls as co-monomers in electron-deficient diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) conjugated polymers enables widening the optical band gap to 1.70 eV. Power conversion efficiencies of 3.7-5.7%… (More)
We demonstrate tandem and triple-junction polymer solar cells with power conversion efficiencies of 8.9% and 9.6% that use a newly designed, high molecular weight, small band gap semiconducting… (More)
For a series of six diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based conjugated polymers, we establish a direct correlation between their external quantum efficiencies (EQE) in organic solar cells and the fibrillar… (More)
Lowering the optical bandgap of conjugated polymers while maintaining a high efficiency for photoinduced charge transfer to suitable electron acceptors such as fullerene has remained a formidable… (More)
Conjugated polymers have been extensively studied for application in organic solar cells. In designing new polymers, particular attention has been given to tuning the absorption spectrum, molecular… (More)
We study the occurrence and effect of intrachain homocoupling defects in alternating push-pull semiconducting PDPPTPT polymers based on dithienyl-diketopyrrolopyrrole (TDPPT) and phenylene (P)… (More)