Structural templating of multiple polycrystalline layers in organic photovoltaic cells

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Lassiter, Brian E ^a   Lunt, Richard R ^a,b   Renshaw, C Kyle ^a   Forrest, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; COMPOSITE LAYER; COPPER PHTHALOCYANINE; CRYSTALLINE ORIENTATIONS; DEPOSITED LAYER; ENERGY LEVEL; EXCITON BLOCKING LAYERS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PERYLENETETRACARBOXYLIC DIANHYDRIDE; POLYCRYSTALLINE; POLYCRYSTALLINE LAYERS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SELF-ORGANIZED; TEMPLATE LAYERS; TEMPLATING;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 77957008031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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