High-performance polymer photovoltaic devices with inverted structure prepared by thermal lamination

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1681-1684

  Nakamura, Motoshi ^a   Yang, Chunhe ^b   Tajima, Keisuke ^a   Hashimoto, Kazuhito ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Lamination; Polymer solar cells; Surface segregation

Indexed keywords

AU ELECTRODES; BLOCKING LAYERS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CONVENTIONAL METALS; FILL FACTOR; HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMER; INVERTED STRUCTURE; LAMINATION; LAMINATION PROCESS; LAYER INTERFACES; METAL ELECTRODES; METHYL ESTERS; PEDOT:PSS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER LAYERS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SPIN-COATING PROCESS; THIN LAYERS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LAMINATING; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMERS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

SURFACE SEGREGATION;

EID: 67649394109     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2009.05.017     Document Type: Article

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