Efficiency enhancement of polymer photovoltaic devices hybridized with ZnO nanorod arrays by the introduction of a vanadium oxide buffer layer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Takanezawa, Kazuko ^a   Tajima, Keisuke ^a   Hashimoto, Kazuhito ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC FAULT LOCATION; ELECTRON IRRADIATION; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SILVER; TRANSITION METALS; VANADIUM; VANADIUM ALLOYS; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS; ZINC ALLOYS; ZINC OXIDE;

AG ELECTRODE; BLOCKING LAYERS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; BUTYRIC ACIDS; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRON COLLECTIONS; FILL FACTOR; METHYL ESTERS; OPEN-CIRCUIT VOLTAGES; ORGANIC LAYERS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SHORT-CIRCUIT CURRENT DENSITY; VANADIUM OXIDE; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; ZNO NANOROD ARRAYS;

SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 49749118009     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2972113     Document Type: Article

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