Novel semiconducting polymers toward high efficiency organic thin film solar cells

Itaru Osaka

Senior Research Scientist, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Emergent Molecular Function Research Group

Abstract

Development of new materials is one of the most important key issues to improve the power conversion efficiency of organic thin film solar cells. Among many materials, semiconducting polymers currently achieve the highest efficiency and thus is attracting much attention in this area. In this project, design and synthesis of new high performance semiconducting polymers will be carried out using original fused heteroaromatic rings with high carrier transport property.