Efficient, ordered bulk heterojunction nanocrystalline solar cells by annealing of ultrathin squaraine thin films

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3555-3559

  Wei, Guodan ^a   Lunt, Richard R ^a   Sun, Kai ^a   Wang, Siyi ^b   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; exciton; Photovoltaic; vacuum deposition

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CRYSTALLINE ORDER; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; EXCITON DIFFUSION LENGTH; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LENGTH SCALE; NANOCRYSTALLINE SOLAR CELLS; ORDERED BULK HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POLYCRYSTALLINE; POST ANNEALING; POSTANNEALED FILMS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; ROUGHENED SURFACES; SELECTED AREA ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; SOLAR INTENSITIES; SOLVENT ANNEALING; SQUARAINES; ULTRA-THIN;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; ANNEALING; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DICHLOROMETHANE; EXCITONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ULTRATHIN FILMS; VACUUM; VACUUM DEPOSITION;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 77956441676     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl1018194     Document Type: Article

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