P3HT/PCBM bulk heterojunction solar cells: Impact of blend composition and 3D morphology on device performance

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1458-1463

  Van Bavel, Svetlana S ^b,c   Bärenklau, Maik ^a   De With, Gijsbertus ^b   Hoppe, Harald ^a   Loos, Joachim ^b,c  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MORPHOLOGY; ACTIVE LAYER; BEFORE AND AFTER; BLEND COMPOSITION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CRYSTALLINITIES; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; METHYL ESTERS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; MORPHOLOGY; SOLAR CELLS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 77951899596     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200902247     Document Type: Article

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