Improvement of the light-harvesting efficiency in polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells by interfacial dye modification

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 804-810

  Honda, Satoshi ^a   Nogami, Takahiro ^a   Ohkita, Hideo ^a   Benten, Hiroaki ^a   Ito, Shinzaburo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

donor acceptor interface; dye modification; light harvesting; near infrared dye; polymer fullerene solar cell

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION BAND; AT-WAVELENGTH; BEFORE AND AFTER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CONTROL DEVICE; DONOR/ACCEPTOR INTERFACE; ENERGY FUNNELS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; LIGHT HARVESTING; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED DYE; OVERALL POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHTHALOCYANINE DERIVATIVES; PHTHALOCYANINE MOLECULES; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLYMER/FULLERENE SOLAR CELL; THERMAL-ANNEALING; THIRD COMPONENT;

ABSORPTION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INFRARED DEVICES; MOLECULES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 70350716161     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am800229p     Document Type: Article

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