Efficient bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells using small-molecular-weight organic thin films

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6954, 2003, Pages 158-162

  Peumans, Peter ^a   Uchida, Soichi ^a   Forrest, Stephen R ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; DISSOCIATION; EXCITONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER BLENDS; POWER CONVERTERS; SOLAR CELLS; SPIN COATING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

ACCEPTOR MATERIALS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

FILM; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEVICE; DISSOCIATION; FILM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0141480967     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01949     Document Type: Article

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