Vertical phase separation in poly(3-hexylthiophene): Fullerene derivative blends and its advantage for inverted structure solar cells

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1227-1234

  Xu, Zheng ^a   Chen, Li Min ^a   Yang, Guanwen ^a   Huang, Chun Hao ^b   Hou, Jianhui ^c   Wu, Yue ^c   Li, Gang ^c   Hsu, Chain Shu ^b   Yang, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Solarmer Energy Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIED INTERFACE; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; INHOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; INVERTED DEVICES; INVERTED STRUCTURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SURFACE ENERGY DIFFERENCES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CARRIER MOBILITY; DERIVATIVES; FULLERENES; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMER FILMS; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 66549095723     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200801286     Document Type: Article

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