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New Conducting and Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Photovoltaics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Shawn Sapp  and
Silvia Luebben
Shawn Sapp
Affiliation:
sasapp@tda.com, TDA Research, Inc., Wheat Ridge, Colorado, United States
Silvia Luebben
Affiliation:
silvia@tda.com, TDA Research, Inc., Wheat Ridge, Colorado, United States
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Abstract

In the emerging field of low-cost printed electronics there is a lack of solvent processable conducting and semiconducting materials with highly tuned and known electronic properties. Currently the best performing conductors and semiconductors are not sufficient to produce truly printable, cost competitive organic photovoltaics (OPVs). TDA Research, Inc. (TDA) has been investigating a new class of solvent processable intrinsically conducting polymers for use as charge transport and transparent conducting layers in organic electronic devices. We have also begun the manufacture of electron-deficient semiconducting polymers that may prove to be excellent acceptors in bulk hetero-junction OPVs. This paper presents a summary of the materials characterization conducted on TDA's new electronic materials and how these may address several of the pressing issues preventing the realization of low-cost, printed solar cells and flexible electronics devices.

Keywords

organicpolymerphotovoltaic
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Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1270: Symposia GG/HH/II – Organic Photovoltaics and Related Electronics-From Excitons to Devices , 2010 , 1270-HH14-40
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010

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