Efficiency enhancement in small molecule bulk heterojunction organic solar cells via additive

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Fan, Haijun ^a,b   Shang, Huixia ^a,b   Li, Yongfang ^a   Zhan, Xiaowei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCED CHARGE TRANSPORT; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; CHARGE TRANSPORT; DOMAIN FORMATION; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; FILM MORPHOLOGY; OCTANEDITHIOL; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SMALL MOLECULES; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; THIADIAZOLES;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HOLE MOBILITY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULES; SOLAR CELLS; THIOPHENE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 77957687080     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3491268     Document Type: Article

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