Efficient solar cells using all-organic nanocrystalline networks

Advanced Materials

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 4166-4171

  Yang, Fan ^a,b   Sun, Kai ^a   Forrest, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PHOTOCURRENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; XENON;

CHARGE EXTRACTION; ORGANIC MOLECULES; ORGANIC NANOCRYSTALLINE NETWORKS; PHOTOCURRENT SPECTRA;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 37149043533     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200700837     Document Type: Article

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