Water-Soluble Polyfluorenes as an Interfacial Layer Leading to Cathode-Independent High Performance of Organic Solar Cells

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1977-1983

  Oh, Seung Hwan ^a   Na, Seok In ^b   Jo, Jang ^a   Lim, Bogyu ^a   Vak, Doojin ^c   Kim, Dong Yu ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BUTYRIC ACIDS; DEVICE EFFICIENCY; FILL FACTOR; FLUORENES; INTERFACIAL DIPOLE LAYERS; INTERFACIAL DIPOLES; INTERFACIAL LAYER; METAL CATHODES; METAL WORKS; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLYFLUORENES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; WATERSOLUBLE POLYMERS;

ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILVER;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77953823601     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200902386     Document Type: Article

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