Recent development of conjugated oligomers for high-efficiency bulk-heterojunction solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1963-1979

  Tang, Weihua ^a   Hai, Jiefeng ^a   Dai, Yun ^a   Huang, Zongjun ^a   Lu, Bingqin ^a   Yuan, Fei ^a   Tang, Jian ^a   Zhang, Fujun ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Conjugated oligomers; Electron acceptor; Electron donor; Organic solar cells

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CONJUGATED OLIGOMER; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON DONOR; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OLIGOMERS; POLYMERS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77957657527     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.07.003     Document Type: Review

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