Tuning the properties of polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells by adjusting fullerene size to control intercalation

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4153-4157

  Cates, Nichole C ^a   Gysel, Roman ^a   Beiley, Zach ^a   Miller, Chad E ^b   Toney, Michael F ^b   Heeney, Martin ^c   McCulloch, Lain ^c   McGehee, Michael D ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; POLYMER BULK; SIDE CHAINS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMERS; QUENCHING; SOLAR CELLS; THIOPHENE;

POLYMER BLENDS;

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FULLERENES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 71949126595     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl9023808     Document Type: Article

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