The role of morphology control in determining the performance of P3HT/C-70 bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1725-1731

  Tang, Haowei ^a   Lu, Guanghao ^a   Yang, Xiaoniu ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Fullerene; mixed solvent; morphology; polymer solar cells

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CRITICAL ELEMENTS; DEVICE CHARACTERIZATION; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DICHLOROBENZENES; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING MEASUREMENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE DEVICES; HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMER; MIXED SOLVENT; MORPHOLOGY CONTROL; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PROCESSABILITY; SOLVENT SYSTEM; THIN-FILM DEPOSITIONS; UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPY;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 78650055792     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2042034     Document Type: Article

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