Controlled current matching in small molecule organic tandem solar cells using doped spacer layers

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Schueppel, Rico ^a   Timmreck, Ronny ^a   Allinger, Nikola ^a   Mueller, Toni ^a   Furno, Mauro ^a   Uhrich, Christian ^b   Leo, Karl ^a   Riede, Moritz ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HELIATEK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER LAYERS; ABSORBING LAYERS; CURRENT MATCHING; CURRENT-VOLTAGE MEASUREMENTS; ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; FULLERENE C; HIGH FILLS; INCIDENT LIGHT; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; INITIAL VALUES; LOSSLESS; OHMIC LOSS; OPTICAL INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL SIMULATION; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; P-DOPED LAYERS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SMALL MOLECULES; SPACER LAYER; SPACER LAYER THICKNESS; SPACER THICKNESS; SUB-CELLS; TANDEM DEVICES; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM OPTICS; TRANSPARENT LAYERS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTICAL FILMS; PHOSPHORUS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; ZINC;

FILM THICKNESS;

EID: 77749327531     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3277051     Document Type: Article

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