Fabrication and characterization of fullerene-based bulk heterojunction solar cells with porphyrin, CuInS2, Diamond and exciton-diffusion blocking layer

Energies

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 671-685

  Oku, Takeo ^a   Takeda, Akihiro ^a   Nagata, Akihiko ^a   Noma, Tatsuya ^a   Suzuki, Atsushi ^a   Kikuchi, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diamond; Fullerene; Porphyrin; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

DIAMONDS; DIFFUSION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EXCITONS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORBITAL CALCULATIONS; PORPHYRINS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; EXCITON DIFFUSION; FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; N-TYPE SEMICONDUCTORS; OPTIMIZED STRUCTURES; P TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR; PERYLENE DERIVATIVES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77952046741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en3040671     Document Type: Article

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