Effects of thermal annealing upon the morphology of polymer-fullerene blends

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 3519-3529

  Verploegen, Eric ^a   Mondal, Rajib ^a   Bettinger, Christopher J ^a   Sok, Seihout ^a   Toney, Michael F ^b   Bao, Zhenan ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

characterization tools; conducting polymers; nanostructures; solar cells; thin films

Indexed keywords

BLEND MORPHOLOGY; BLEND RATIOS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BUTYRIC ACIDS; COHERENCE LENGTHS; COLD CRYSTALLIZATION; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; GRAZING INCIDENCE; HEATING CHAMBERS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; MELTING TEMPERATURES; METHYL ESTERS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER-FULLERENE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

ANNEALING; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; FULLERENES; GLASS TRANSITION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MELTING POINT; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC CONDUCTORS; POLYMER BLENDS; SOLAR CELLS; THERMOANALYSIS; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

CONDUCTIVE FILMS;

EID: 78149446062     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201000975     Document Type: Article

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