Photovoltaic enhancement of organic solar cells by a bridged donor-acceptor block copolymer approach

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Sun, Sam Shajing ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^a   Ledbetter, Abram ^a   Choi, Soobum ^a   Seo, Kang ^a   Bonner Jr , Carl E ^a,c   Drees, Martin ^b   Sariciftci, Niyazi Serdar ^b  

^a NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^c LUNA INNOVATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED BLOCKS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHENYLENEVINYLENE; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; DERIVATIVES; EXCITONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; REDUCTION; THIN FILMS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 33846624763     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2437100     Document Type: Article

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