The effect of three-dimensional morphology on the efficiency of hybrid polymer solar cells

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 818-824

  Oosterhout, Stefan D ^a   Wienk, Martijn M ^a   Van Bavel, Svetlana S ^a,b   Thiedmann, Ralf ^c   Jan Anton Koster, L ^a   Gilot, Jan ^a   Loos, Joachim ^a   Schmidt, Volker ^c   Janssen, René A J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SOLVENTS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; HYBRID POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); QUANTITATIVE CORRELATION; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL MORPHOLOGY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 70349330470     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2533     Document Type: Article

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