Improved inverted organic solar cells with a sol-gel derived indium-doped zinc oxide buffer layer

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1700-1706

  Kyaw, Aung Ko Ko ^a   Sun, Xiaowei ^a   Zhao, De Wei ^a   Tan, Swee Tiam ^c   Divayana, Yoga ^a   Demir, Hilmi Volkan ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Indium doped zinc oxide (IZO); inverted organic solar cell; solgel

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE COLLECTION; COMBINED EFFECT; FILL FACTOR; INDIUM CONTENT; INDIUM DOPING; LAYER STACKS; MAXIMUM CURRENT DENSITY; OPTICAL TRANSMITTANCE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; OXIDE BUFFER LAYERS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PURE ZNO; ZNO BUFFER LAYER;

BUFFER LAYERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INDIUM; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 78650044070     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2039200     Document Type: Article

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