A comparative study on the performances of small molecule organic solar cells based on CuPc/C60 and CuPc/C70

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2435-2441

  Xi, Xi ^a   Li, Wenjia ^a   Wu, Jiaqi ^a   Ji, Jingjia ^b,c   Shi, Zhengrong ^b,c   Li, Guohua ^a,c  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Suntech Power Co Ltd   (China)

^c Jiangsu Suntech Institute for Photovoltaic Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Acceptor; C60; C70; Degradation; Organic solar cells; Quantum current distribution

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTOR; C60; C70; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; QUANTUM CURRENTS;

DEGRADATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULES; OXYGEN;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77957680396     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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