Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Short contacts between chains enhancing luminescence quantum yields and carrier mobilities in conjugated copolymers

  • Tudor H. Thomas,
  • David J. Harkin,
  • Alexander J. Gillett,
  • Vincent Lemaur,
  • Mark Nikolka,
  • Aditya Sadhanala,
  • Johannes M. Richter,
  • John Armitage,
  • Hu Chen,
  • Iain McCulloch,
  • S. Matthew Menke,
  • Yoann Olivier,
  • David Beljonne,
  • Henning Sirringhaus

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10277-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Designing conjugated polymers with high charge carrier mobility and fluorescence quantum efficiency, though attractive for optoelectronics, remains challenging. Here, the authors report a strategy for designing donor-acceptor copolymers whose optoelectronic properties exceed the state-of-the-art.