Polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

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Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Deibel, Carsten ^a   Dyakonov, Vladimir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

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EID: 78149279102     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/73/9/096401     Document Type: Article

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