Influence of solvents and substrates on the morphology and the performance of low-bandgap polyfluorene:PCBM photovoltaic devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6192, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Björström, Cecilia M ^a   Nilsson, Svante ^a   Magnusson, Kjell O ^a   Moons, Ellen ^a   Bernasik, Andrzej ^b   Rysz, Jakub ^c   Budkowski, Andrzej ^c   Zhang, Fengling ^d   Inganäs, Olle ^d   Andersson, Mats R ^e  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Phase separation; Photovoltaics cells; Polymer blends; Solvent; Spinodal decomposition

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLENDING; ESTERS; EVAPORATION; GOLD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTODIODES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMER BLENDS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SOLVENTS; SPIN COATING; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

CHLOROBENZENE; CHLOROFORM; POLYFLUORENE; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 33746663575     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.662857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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