Room to improve conjugated polymer-based solar cells: Understanding how thermal annealing affects the fullerene component of a bulk heterojunction photovoltaic device

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 112, Issue 48, 2008, Pages 18711-18716

  Ayzner, Alexander L ^a   Wanger, Darcy D ^a   Tassone, Christopher J ^a   Tolbert, Sarah H ^a   Schwartz, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYERS; ATOMIC FORCES; BLEND FILMS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ELECTRON BLOCKING LAYERS; ELECTRON CURRENTS; FULLERENE DERIVATIVES; PEDOT:PSS; PHASE SEGREGATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLYMER BULKS; STYRENE SULFONATES; THERMAL ANNEALING; THERMAL TREATMENTS;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BLENDING; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ELECTRONS; ESTERS; FULLERENES; HARVESTING; HEAT TREATMENT; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ANNEALING;

EID: 57949098213     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp8076497     Document Type: Article

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