Influence of the isomeric composition of the acceptor on the performance of organic bulk heterojunction P3HT:bis-PCBM solar cells

We synthesized three isomeric subpopulations of bisadduct analogues of [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (bis-PCBM) via tether-directed control. Bulk heterojunction solar cells prepared using these isomers together with poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) resulted in an increase of Jsc from 72.4 to 79.6 A m-2, and an improvement in fill factor from 0.55 to 0.62, both with a Voc of 0.72 V resulting in an overall enhancement of the power conversion efficiency (PCE) from 2.9% to 3.5%, compared to conventional bis-PCBM.

Partitioning the Heritability of Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Reveals Differences in Genetic Architecture

The direct estimation of heritability from genome-wide common variant data as implemented in the program Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis (GCTA) has provided a means to quantify heritability attributable to all interrogated variants. We have quantified the variance in liability to disease explained

Field-assisted ionization of molecular doping in conjugated polymers

The field- and temperature dependence of the charge transport in solution-processed poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-p-phenylene vinylene] (MEH-PPV) doped with tetrafluoro-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4-TCNQ) is investigated. Conventional charge transport models based on a density- and field-dependent mobility in combination with a constant background hole density from the dopant do not explain the strongly enhanced hole current at high electric fields. Addition of field-assisted ionization of F4-TCNQ with a field-enhancement factor ~exp(γ√E), which increases with decreasing temperature and doping concentration, consistently describes the charge transport in F4-TCNQ doped MEH-PPV.