Soluble P3HT-grafted graphene for efficient bilayer-heterojunction photovoltaic devices

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5633-5640

  Yu, Dingshan ^a   Yang, Yan ^b   Durstock, Michael ^c   Baek, Jong Beom ^d   Dai, Liming ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

end functionalization; graphene; poly(3 hexylthiophene); solar cells; solution processing

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; CARBOXYLIC GROUP; COVALENT LINKAGE; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS; END-FUNCTIONALIZATION; ESTERIFICATION REACTIONS; GRAPHENE OXIDES; GRAPHENES; HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; HETEROSTRUCTURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REGIO-REGULAR; SOLUTION PROCESSING; SOLUTION-CAST;

CARRIER MOBILITY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

GRAPHENE;

FULLERENE C60; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; GRAPHITE; OXYGEN; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FULLERENES; GRAPHITE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXYGEN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SOLVENTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 78049351023     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101671t     Document Type: Article

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