Carbon nanotube doping of P3HT : PPPCBM photovoltaic devices

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Kymakis, Emmanuel ^a   Kornilios, Nikolaos ^a   Koudoumas, Emmanuel ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; CURRENT DENSITY; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; FILL FACTOR; FUNCTIONALIZED; OPEN-CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLYMER-FULLERENE; SHORT-CIRCUIT CURRENT DENSITY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 49749136129     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/41/16/165110     Document Type: Article

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