Effect of thermal annealing and incorporating TiO2 layer on the photovoltaic performance of single- and bi-layer bulk heterojunction devices based on phenylenevinylene copolymer and small molecule

Organic Electronics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 731-742

  Sharma, G D ^a,c   Suresh, P ^a   Mikroyannidis, John A ^b  

^a JAI NARAIN VYAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c Jaipur Engineering College   (India)

Author keywords

Bi layer bulk heterojunction; Bulk heterojunctions; Organic solar cells; Photovoltaic effect; Thermal annealing

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ELECTRODES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION (BHJ); BULK-HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHENYLENEVINYLENE COPOLYMERS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 77950691532     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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