Electropolymerized poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) film on ITO glass and its application in photovoltaic device

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 390-394

  Yan, Jun ^a,b   Sun, Chenghua ^a   Tan, Furui ^c   Hu, Xiujie ^a   Chen, Ping ^a   Qu, Shengchun ^c   Zhou, Shuyun ^a   Xu, Jingkun ^d  

^a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^d Nanchang Normal University   (China)

Author keywords

Electrochemically polymerized; Energy conversion efficiencies; ITO; PEDOT films; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

BORON TRIFLUORIDE DIETHYL ETHERATE; CYCLIC VOLTAMMOGRAMS; ELECTROCHEMICALLY POLYMERIZED; ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENES; GLASS SUBSTRATES; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; IN-SITU; ITO; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; PEDOT:PSS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLY(STYRENE SULFONATE); POLYMERIZED FILMS; REDOX ACTIVITY; SPIN-COATING METHOD;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONVERSION; GLASS; POLYMERS; REDOX REACTIONS; SOLAR CELLS; STYRENE;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 72149126414     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2009.09.014     Document Type: Article

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