Ambipolar organic semiconductor blends for photovoltaic cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7002, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Opitz, Andreas ^a   Bronner, Markus ^a   Wagner, Julia ^a   Götzenbrugger, Marcel ^a   Brütting, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; FULLERENES; OPTICS; PHOTOELECTRIC CELLS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTONICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; SOLAR RADIATION;

AMBIPOLAR; COPPER PHTHALOCYANINE (CU PC); MATERIAL SYSTEMS; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV); SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS;

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 47749096817     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.780998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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