Interfacial segregation in polymer/fullerene blend films for photovoltaic devices

Macromolecules

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3828-3836

  Germack, David S ^a   Chan, Calvin K ^a   Joseph Kline, R ^a   Fischer, Daniel A ^a   Gundlach, David J ^a   Toney, Michael F ^b   Richter, Lee J ^a   Delongchamp, Dean M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BLEND FILMS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BURIED INTERFACE; COMPOSITION PROFILE; FREE SURFACES; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; IMPACT DEVICE; INTERFACIAL SEGREGATION; NEAR EDGE X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPIES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SURFACE ENERGIES; VERTICAL SEGREGATION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY;

SURFACE SEGREGATION;

EID: 77951189484     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma100027b     Document Type: Article

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