Elucidating the aspect of "phase separation" in organic blends by means of thermal analysis

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6656, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Swinnen, A ^a   Zhao, J ^b   Van Assche, G ^b   Vanderzande, D ^a,c   D'Olieslaeger, M ^a,c   Manca, J V ^a,c   Van Mele, B ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction solar cells; Morphology; P3HT; PCBM; Phase diagram; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ORGANIC ACIDS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC BULK HETEROJUNCTION; POST-PRODUCTION ANNEALING;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 42149121402     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.733761     Document Type: Conference Paper

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