Alex K.-Y. Jen

TL;DR: A series of highly efficient and thermally stable electro-optic polymers have been developed by poling and crosslinking in situ the blend of high glass-transition temperature (Tg) anthracene-containing polymers and acrylate-functionalized dendritic nonlinear optical (NLO) chromophores.

TL;DR: In this paper, photoexcitations decay primarily via intrachain relaxation rather than photoinduced electron transfer from OTV to PCBM, and the electron transfer process requires ca. 14 ps; larger by more than two orders of magnitude than the required time observed in conjugated-polymer:C 60 composites, and also larger than the 0.6 ps singlet-state lifetime in OTV.

TL;DR: In this paper, an efficient electron-transporting layers (ETL) with a stable conductive fullerene doped into a thermally crosslinkable matrix have been developed for inverted polymer solar cells (PSCs).

TL;DR: Inverted tandem bulk-heterojunction solar cells with comparable efficiency to single layer devices have been demonstrated by utilizing two thin layers (∼50nm) of poly-(3-hexylthiophene):[6,6]-phenyl C61 butyric acid methyl ester as the active material and a fullerene self-assembled monolayer (C60-SAM) to modify the interfaces between the ZnO buffer layer and the active layer as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, an electro-optic polymer-clad silicon slot waveguide was used for a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) modulator with a half-wave voltage of only 0.69 V and a bandwidth of 500 MHz.