Electrophotonic enhancement of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells through photonic crystal photoactive layer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Tumbleston, John R ^a   Ko, Doo Hyun ^a   Samulski, Edward T ^a   Lopez, Rene ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

2D STRUCTURES; ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENTS; BAND EDGES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; BUTYRIC ACIDS; METHYL ESTERS; NANO-CRYSTALLINE; NANO-STRUCTURED; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 59349089533     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3075053     Document Type: Article

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