Confocal and near-field spectroscopic investigation of P3HT:PCBM organic blend film upon thermal annealing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7395, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wang, Xiao ^a   Zhang, Dai ^a   Braun, Kai ^a   Egelhaaf, Hans Joachim ^b   Meixner, Alfred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Konarka Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal optical microscopy; Degradation; Near field optical microscopy; Photoluminescence (PL); Photovoltaic thin film

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; BLEND FILMS; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CONFOCAL OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; DEGRADATION BEHAVIOR; DEGRADATION RATE; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; FILM DEGRADATION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LOCAL DISTRIBUTIONS; METHYL ESTERS; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; ORGANIC FILMS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PARABOLIC MIRRORS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION; PHOTOVOLTAIC THIN FILM; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC MAPPING; THERMAL ANNEALING PROCESS; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DEGRADATION; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 70449336349     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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