Organic solar cells: An overview

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1924-1945

  Hoppe, Harald ^a   Sariciftci, Niyazi Serdar ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; EVAPORATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; THIN FILMS;

BILAYER HETEROJUNCTION; DRY THERMAL EVAPORATION; NANOSCALE MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER CONVERSION; SOLAR POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; WET SOLUTION PROCESSING;

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 4143067954     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2004.0252     Document Type: Article

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