Improving performance of organic solar cells using amorphous tungsten oxides as an interfacial buffer layer on transparent anodes

Organic Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 791-797

  Han, Seungchan ^a   Shin, Won Suk ^b   Seo, Myungsoo ^a   Gupta, Dipti ^a   Moon, Sang Jin ^b   Yoo, Seunghyup ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Buffer layer; Large area solar cell; P3HT; PCBM; Tungsten oxide

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; ANODES; BUFFER LAYERS; BUTYRIC ACID; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; OXIDE FILMS; OXIDES; SOLAR CELLS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

BATCH-TO-BATCH CONSISTENCY; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; LARGE-AREA SOLAR CELLS; P3HT; PCBM; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TUNGSTEN OXIDE; [6 ,6]-PHENYL-C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS;

TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 67649185265     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2009.03.016     Document Type: Article

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