Organic solar cells with a blend of two solution processable electron acceptors, C60(CN)2 and PCBM

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 001252-001257

  Koppolu, Vaishali R ^a   Gupta, Mool C ^a   Baqienskl, Will ^a   Shen, Yang ^a   Shu, Chunying ^b   Gibson, Harry W ^b   Dorn, Harry C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CONJUGATE POLYMERS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; FILL FACTOR; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; METHYL ESTERS; NOVEL SOLUTIONS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTRUM; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); PROCESSABLE; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

BLENDING; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONVERSION; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 77951567105     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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