The effect of crystallinity in donor groups on the performance of photovoltaic devices based on an oligothiophene-fullerene dyad

Nanotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 42, 2008, Pages

  Nishizawa, Takeshi ^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

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CHARGE CARRIERS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; FULLERENES; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

ATOMIC FORCES; BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS; CRYSTALLINITY; DEVICE PERFORMANCES; DONOR GROUPS; FILL FACTORS; FULLERENE DYADS; MIXING RATIOS; OLIGOTHIOPHENE; OLIGOTHIOPHENE MOLECULES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ESTER DERIVATIVE; FULLERENE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEVICE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 56349166097     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/19/42/424017     Document Type: Article

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