Aggregation and gelation effects on the performance of poly(3- hexylthiophene)/fullerene solar cells

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 7485-7489

  Huang, W Y ^a   Huang, P T ^b   Han, Y K ^c   Lee, C C ^a   Hsieh, T L ^a   Chang, M Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CARRIER MOBILITY; COAGULATION; COLLOIDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FULLERENES; GELATION; GELS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES; DEVICE OPTIMIZATIONS; ELECTRONIC COUPLINGS; HIGH CONCENTRATIONS; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTIES; STANDARD TESTS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 55649102564     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma801368z     Document Type: Article

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