On the use of cyanine dyes as low-bandgap materials in bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 156, Issue 14-15, 2006, Pages 973-978

  Castro, Fernando A ^a,b   Faes, Antonin ^a   Geiger, Thomas ^a   Graeff, Carlos F O ^b   Nagel, Matthias ^a   Nüesch, Frank ^a   Hany, Roland ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cyanine dye; Organic solar cell; Photovoltaic cell

Indexed keywords

DYES; ELECTRODES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTOCURRENTS;

CYANINE DYE; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL (HOMO); ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHASE SEGREGATION; POLYMER MATRIX;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 33747748471     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2006.06.010     Document Type: Article

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