Open-circuit voltage improvement in hybrid ZnO-polymer photovoltaic devices with oxide engineering

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1587-1594

  Lee, Yun Ju ^a   Davis, Robert J ^a   Lloyd, Matthew T ^b   Provencio, Paula P ^a   Prasankumar, Rohit P ^c   Hsu, Julia W P ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid junctions; interface phenomena; photovoltaic (PV) cell materials; PV effect

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS TIO; BAND GAPS; BI-LAYER DEVICES; DARK CURRENT-VOLTAGE; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; HYBRID JUNCTION; IDEAL DIODES; INTERFACE PHENOMENA; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; METAL OXIDES; ONE-FACTOR; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) CELL MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE; PROCESSING CONDITION; PV EFFECT; PYROLYSIS TEMPERATURE; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; SPIN-COATING METHOD; TIO; ZNO; ZNO FILMS; ZNO NANOROD ARRAYS;

COATINGS; HYBRID MATERIALS; LEAD OXIDE; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALLIC FILMS; NANORODS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PASSIVATION; PYROLYSIS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE DEFECTS; ZINC OXIDE;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 78650057993     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2040586     Document Type: Article

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