Effects of annealing and degradation on regioregular polythiophene-based bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2258-2264

  Ebadian, Soheil ^a   Gholamkhass, Bobak ^b   Shambayati, Shabnam ^a   Holdcroft, Steven ^b   Servati, Peyman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hole mobility; Organic photovoltaic devices; P3HT:PCBM; Regioregularity; Solar cells; Space charge limited current

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING TIME; BEFORE AND AFTER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BUTYRIC ACIDS; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; EFFECTIVE CHARGE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRON TRANSPORTING; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; METHYL ESTERS; OPTICAL DENSITIES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; P3HT:PCBM; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE OF DEVICES; PHASE SEGREGATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLY-THIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REGIO-REGULAR; REGIOREGULARITY; RR-P3HT; SPACE CHARGE LIMITED CURRENTS;

ANNEALING; BIODEGRADATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DEGRADATION; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ELECTRONS; ESTERS; EXTRACTION; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

HOLE MOBILITY;

EID: 77957665789     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.07.021     Document Type: Article

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