Interfacial nanostructuring on the performance of polymer/TiO2 nanorod bulk heterojunction solar cells

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3644-3649

  Lin, Yun Yue ^a,b   Chu, Tsung Hung ^a,b   Li, Shao Sian ^a,b   Chuang, Chia Hao ^a,b   Chang, Chia Hao ^a,b   Su, Wei Fang ^a,b   Chang, Ching Pin ^a,b,c   Chu, Ming Wen ^a,c   Chen, Chun Wei ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Materials Science and Engineering ^*  (Taiwan)

^c Center for Condensed Matter Sciences   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY; FILL FACTOR; HYBRID MORPHOLOGY; INTERFACE MODIFICATION; LIGAND MOLECULES; NANO-STRUCTURING; NANOROD SURFACES; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE; SCANNING KELVIN PROBE MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PHOTO VOLTAGES; TIO;

NANORODS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMERS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

DYE; LIGAND; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOMATERIAL; NANOROD; POLYMER; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BULK DENSITY; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICITY; HYBRID; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLECULE; MORPHOLOGY; NANOFABRICATION; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENT; SOLAR CELL;

EID: 69249100905     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja8079143     Document Type: Article

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