Organic photovoltaic cells containing discotic liquid crystalline phthalocyanines

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5215, Issue , 2004, Pages 71-78

  Yoo, Seunghyup ^a,c   Domercq, Benoit ^a,c   Donley, Carrie L ^b   Carter, Chet ^b   Xia, Wei ^b   Minch, Britt A ^b   O'Brien, David F ^b   Armstrong, Neal R ^b   Kippelen, Bernard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discotic liquid crystal; Organic photovoltaic cells; Phthalocyanine; Transport

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SOLAR CELLS; SPIN COATING;

DISCOTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHTHALOCYANINE; TRANSPORT;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 1942485913     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.506470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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