Relation between photoactive layer thickness, 3D morphology, and device performance in P3HT/PCBM bulk-heterojunction solar cells

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 7396-7403

  Van Bavel, Svetlana ^a,b   Sourty, Erwan ^a,c   De With, Gijsbertus ^a   Frolic, Kai ^a   Loos, Joachim ^a,b  

^a Laboratory of Materials and Interface Chemistry   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MORPHOLOGY; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE COLLECTION; CHARGE TRANSPORTATION; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DIFFERENT THICKNESS; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; HIGH CRYSTALLINITY; LAYER THICKNESS; METHANOFULLERENES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; PREPARATION CONDITIONS; SOLVENT EVAPORATION; THICK LAYERS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORKS;

CELL MEMBRANES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC WIRE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

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EID: 70349925688     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma900817t     Document Type: Article

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