Influence of the bridging atom on the performance of a low-bandgap bulk heterojunction solar cell

Advanced Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 367-370

  Scharber, Markus C ^a   Koppe, Markus ^a   Gao, Jia ^b   Cordella, Fabrizio ^b   Loi, Mari A ^b   Denk, Patrick ^a   Morana, Mauro ^a   Egelhaaf, Hans Joachim ^a   Forberich, Karen ^c   Dennler, Gilles ^c   Gaudiana, Russ ^c   Waller, Dave ^c   Zhu, Zhengguo ^c   Shi, Xiaobo ^c   Brabec, Christoph J ^a  

^a Konarka Austria Forschungs und Entwicklungs GmbH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c KONARKA TECHNOLOGIES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; BAND GAPS; BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CHARGE TRANSFER COMPLEX; CHARGE TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; CRYSTALLINITIES; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; MAIN CHAINS; POLY-THIOPHENE; POLYSILOLE;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

CARBON; POLYMER; POLYTHIOPHENE; SILICON; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY;

CARBON; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; POLYMERS; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY; THIOPHENES;

EID: 76649136644     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200900529     Document Type: Article

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