Printing highly efficient organic solar cells

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2806-2813

  Hoth, Claudia N ^a,b   Schilinsky, Pavel ^a   Choulis, Stelios A ^a,c   Brabec, Christoph J ^a  

^a Konarka Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMER BLENDS; PRINTING; PRINTING PRESSES; PRINTING PROPERTIES; SOLAR ENERGY; SPIN DYNAMICS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; INK-JET PRINTINGS; NANO MORPHOLOGIES; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PRINTING PROCESS; SKILL SETS; SOLVENT MIXTURES; SPIN-COATING; STATE-OF-THE ARTS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 54949087281     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl801365k     Document Type: Article

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