The effect of zinc oxide nanostructure on the performance of hybrid polymer/zinc oxide solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5938, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-8

  Peiro A M ^a   Ravirajan, P ^a,b   Govender, K ^c   Boyle, D S ^c   O'Brien, P ^c   Bradley, D D C ^a   Nelson, J ^a   Durrant, J R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAFFNA   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hybrid solar cells; Metal oxide; P3HT; Photovoltaics; Polymer; Rods; Transient absorption; ZnO

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; ZINC OXIDE;

HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; METAL OXIDE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 31744452193     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.617555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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