Stepwise heating in Stille polycondensation toward no batch-to-batch variations in polymer solar cell performance

Sang Myeon Lee; Kwang Hyun Park; Seungon Jung; Hyesung Park; Changduk Yang

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03718-7

Nature Communications (May 2018)

Stepwise heating in Stille polycondensation toward no batch-to-batch variations in polymer solar cell performance

Sang Myeon Lee,
Kwang Hyun Park,
Seungon Jung,
Hyesung Park,
Changduk Yang

Affiliations

Sang Myeon Lee: Department of Energy Engineering, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials Center, Perovtronics Research Center, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
Kwang Hyun Park: Department of Energy Engineering, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials Center, Perovtronics Research Center, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
Seungon Jung: Department of Energy Engineering, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials Center, Perovtronics Research Center, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
Hyesung Park: Department of Energy Engineering, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials Center, Perovtronics Research Center, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
Changduk Yang: Department of Energy Engineering, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials Center, Perovtronics Research Center, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03718-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Polymer electronics may have a bright future but the poor reproducibility limits the scaled-up manufacturing. Here Lee et al. employ a stepwise-heating protocol in the Stille polycondensation and fabricate polymer solar cells with improved performance and ignorable device-to-device variations.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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