Ternary mixing: A simple method to tailor the morphology of organic solar cells

Organic Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1120-1132

  Campoy Quiles, Mariano ^a,b   Kanai, Yoshihiro ^a   El Basaty, Ahmed ^a   Sakai, Heisuke ^a   Murata, Hideyuki ^a  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Morphology; Polymer:fullerene solar cells; Polythiophene; Ternary systems; Transport

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARRIER MOBILITY; CARRIER TRANSPORT; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MIXING; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; TERNARY SYSTEMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY; NANOSCALE AGGREGATES; OPEN CIRCUIT CURRENTS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; TRANSPORT;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 67651011420     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2009.05.028     Document Type: Article

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