Conjugated polymers

US10629815B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• InnovationLab GmbH · DE
• KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FÜR TECHNOLOGIE · DE
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BRAUNSCHWEIG · DE
• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US

Inventors

• Marius Kuhn · Heidelberg, DE
• Torben Adermann · Heidelberg, DE
• Manuel Hamburger · Mannheim, DE
• Klaus Muellen · Cologne, DE
• Janusz Schinke · Braunschweig, DE
• Alexander Colsmann · Karlsruhe, DE
• Stefan Hoefle · Karlsruhe, DE
• Ulrich Lemmer · Karlsruhe, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 10, 2015
• Grant date: Apr 21, 2020
• Expiry date: Feb 10, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E60/10
• WIPO field: Macromolecular chemistry, polymers
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to new conjugated semiconducting polymers containing thermally cleavable side groups. The thermally cleavable side groups are selected from among carbonate groups and carbamate groups. By thermally cleaving side groups, the solubility or the polymers can be reduced in a targeted manner. The polymers are used as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, organic photodetectors (OPDs), organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), and organic field effect transistors (OFETs).