Interdigitated bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic cells with aligned copper phthalocyanine nanorods

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1544-1551

  Zheng, Ying ^a   Bekele, Robel ^b   Ouyang, Jiaomin ^a   Xue, Jiangeng ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interdigitated bulk heterojunction (BHJ); molecular nanorods; oblique angle deposition (OAD); organic photovoltaic cell

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BI-LAYER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BUTYRIC ACIDS; COPPER PHTHALOCYANINE; CRYSTALLINITIES; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; EXCITON DIFFUSION; HIGH VACUUM; HIGH-DENSITY; INTERFACIAL AREAS; MAXIMUM POWER; METHYL ESTERS; MOLECULAR NANORODS; NANOROD ARRAYS; NANORODS GROWN; OBLIQUE-ANGLE DEPOSITION; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SCANNING ELECTRONS; VARIOUS SUBSTRATES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

NANORODS;

EID: 78650071285     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2041901     Document Type: Article

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