Effect of self-organization in polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunctions on solar cell performance

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Shrotriya, Vishal ^a   Yao, Yan ^a   Li, Gang ^a   Yang, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER TRANSPORT; POLYMER/FULLERENE BULK HETEROJUNCTIONS; SELF-ORGANIZATION; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FULLERENES; PHOTOCURRENTS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 33747134713     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2335377     Document Type: Article

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