We report a comparative study of plastic photodiodes using four different copolymers of fluorene, with a variation of alkyl side chain length and chemical structure. Photodiode materials are formed by blending the polymers with a fullerene derivative and spincoating the blend solution. A photovoltage of 1 V is obtained in devices, where the anode is a doped polymer and the cathode is LiF/Al. Monochromatic quantum efficiencies are better than 40% over most of the absorption range, and under solar light AM 1.5 simulation, we reach energy efficiencies beyond 2%. The high fill factors obtained in some of the devices indicate that these are of interest for more elaborate optimisation. Reasons for the benign electrical transport are discussed. © Springer-Verlag 2004.
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Inganäs, O., Svensson, M., Zhang, F., Gadisa, A., Persson, N. K., Wang, X., & Andersson, M. R. (2004). Low bandgap alternating polyfluorene copolymers in plastic photodiodes and solar cells. Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing, 79(1), 31–35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-003-2498-5
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