Design of organic tandem solar cells using low- and high-bandgap polymer: Fullerene composites

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2170-2175

  Boland, Patrick ^a   Lee, Keejoo ^a   Dean, James ^a   Namkoong, Gon ^a  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

Low bandgap; Organic solar cells; P3HT; PCPDTBT; Tandem solar cells

Indexed keywords

BAND GAPS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; P3HT; PCPDTBT; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; FATTY ACIDS; FULLERENES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; POLYMERS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77957656072     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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