High efficiency polymer solar cells with internal quantum efficiency approaching 100%

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7416, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Park, Sung Heum ^a,b   Leclerc, Mario ^c   Heeger, Alan J ^a,b   Lee, Kwanghee ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction solar cell; Internal quantum efficiency; Optical spacer; PCDTBT; Titanium sub oxide

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED PHOTONS; AIR MASS; ALTERNATING COPOLYMER; BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL; BUTYRIC ACIDS; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; METHYL ESTERS; OPTICAL SPACER; PCDTBT; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; THIENYL;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 70449570781     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.825836     Document Type: Conference Paper

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