Squaraine planar-heterojunction solar cells

International Journal of Photoenergy

Volumn 2009, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fan, Bin ^a   Maniglio, Ylenia ^a   Simeunovic, Marina ^a   Kuster, Simon ^a   Geiger, Thomas ^a   Hany, Roland ^a   Nüesch, Frank ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; FILM THICKNESS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

BI-LAYER; CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; CELL/BE; ELECTRON DONORS; FILM-THICKNESS; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HIGH EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; SQUARAINES;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 69449091293     PISSN: 1110662X     EISSN: 1110662X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/581068     Document Type: Article

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