Effect of a buffer layer, composition and annealing on the performance of a bulk heterojunction polythiophene/fullerene composite photovoltaic device

Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 191-197

  Rait, Sukhbinder ^a   Kashyap, Shipra ^a   Bhatnagar, P K ^a   Mathur, P C ^a   Sengupta, Sandip K ^b   Kumar, Jayant ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Annealing; Composition; Fullerene; Polythiophene

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BUFFER LAYERS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; POLYMERS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION POLYTHIOPHENE; COMPOSITE PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PLASTIC SOLAR CELLS; POST ANNEALING;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 34547762175     PISSN: 13869477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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