Enlarged bilayer interfaces from liquid-liquid dewetting for photovoltaic applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6999, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Heier, Jakob ^a   Groenewold, Jan ^b   Castro, Fernando A ^a   Nüesch, Frank ^a   Hany, Roland ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cyanine dye; Liquid liquid dewetting; Organic photovoltaic; Organic solar cell; PCBM

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CELLS; CLADDING (COATING); DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; DISSOLUTION; FILM THICKNESS; FILMS; FLUIDS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE INTERFACES; PHOTONICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PIGMENTS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SPIN COATING;

BI LAYERS; BI-LAYERS; BLEND MORPHOLOGY; CYANINE DYES; DE-WETTING; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; INTERFACIAL AREA (IA); INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS (IMI); LAYER THICKNESSES; LIQUID LIQUIDS; MOBILE IONS; ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; POWER-CONVERSION EFFICIENCY (PCE); SELECTIVE DISSOLUTION; SEMICONDUCTING MATERIALS; SPINODAL DEWETTING;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 45749106010     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.780221     Document Type: Conference Paper

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