Surface treatment of NiO hole transport layers for organic solar cells

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1649-1655

  Berry, Joseph J ^a   Widjonarko, N Edwin ^b   Bailey, Brian A ^c   Sigdel, Ajaya K ^c   Ginley, David S ^a   Olson, Dana C ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hole transport layer (HTL); metal oxide; organic photovoltaic (OPV)

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER MATERIAL; ACTIVE LAYER; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CONTACT MATERIAL; CONTACT PROPERTIES; DEPOSITION PARAMETERS; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ENERGY LEVEL; ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENES; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; METAL OXIDE; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTO-VOLTAGE; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLY(STYRENE SULFONATE); POTENTIAL LOSS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR SPECTRUM; THIN-FILM PROCESSING; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HOLE MOBILITY; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

SURFACE TREATMENT;

EID: 78650053468     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2049347     Document Type: Article

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