High Performance All‐Polymer Solar Cell via Polymer Side‐Chain Engineering

Acknowledge support from the Office of Naval Research (N00014-14-1-0142), KAUST Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics at Stanford and the Stanford Global Climate and Energy Program, NSF DMR-1303742 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Projects 21174004 and 21222403). Soft X-ray characterization and analysis by NCSU supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Science, Division of Materials Science and Engineering under Contract DE-FG02-98ER45737. Soft X-ray data was acquired at beamlines 11.0.1.2 at the Advanced Light Source, which is supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U. S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. We thank Professor Michael D. McGehee, Dr. George F. Burkhard and Dr. Eric T. Hoke for their help in discussion of the recombination mechanism.

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