Improvement of conversion efficiency of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells using photo-curable crosslinker

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1384-1388

  Ryu, Mi Sun ^a   Jang, Jin ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Cell efficiency; Effective interface; Organic solar cell; Photo curable crosslinker

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; CONTROL DEVICE; CROSSLINKER; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; FILL FACTOR; MOLECULAR ORDERING; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PHOTO-INITIATOR;

CELLS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 77953132337     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.04.007     Document Type: Article

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