Improving power conversion efficiency in polythiophene/fullerene-based bulk heterojunction solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 757-763

  Rait, Sukhbinder ^a   Kashyap, Shipra ^a   Bhatnagar, P K ^a   Mathur, P C ^a   Sengupta, S K ^b   Kumar, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Annealing; Composition; Efficiency; Fullerene; Polythiophene

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; DEGRADATION; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; COMPOSITE ACCEPTORS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 34147112983     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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