Solution-processed squaraine bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1927-1934

  Wei, Guodan ^a   Wang, Siyi ^b   Renshaw, Kyle ^a   Thompson, Mark E ^b   Forrest, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Photovoltaic; Small molecule; Solar cell; Solution processing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; AIR MASS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; BUTYRIC ACIDS; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; INTERNAL RESISTANCE; MATRIX; METHYL ESTERS; NANOMORPHOLOGIES; NANOPARTICLE MORPHOLOGY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RELATIVE CONCENTRATION; SERIES RESISTANCES; SMALL MOLECULES; SOLAR ILLUMINATION; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; SQUARAINES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HOLE MOBILITY; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SUN; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 77951734233     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100195j     Document Type: Article

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