Charge transport and photocurrent generation in poly(3-hexylthiophene): Methanofullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 699-708

  Mihailetchi, Valentin D ^a   Xie, Hangxing ^a   De Boer, Bert ^a   Koster, L Jan Anton ^a   Blom, Paul W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON MOBILITY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SOLAR CELLS; THERMOANALYSIS;

ACCEPTOR INTERFACE; ANNEALING TEMPERATURE; DISSOCIATION EFFICIENCY; METHANOFULLERENE (PCBM);

OLEFINS;

EID: 33645297374     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200500420     Document Type: Article

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