Morphology dependent short circuit current in bulk heterojunction solar cell

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 85-89

  Ray, Biswajit ^a   Nair, Pradeep R ^a   Alam, Muhammad A ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEAL TIME; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CURRENT LIMITS; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; HETEROSTRUCTURES; ITS EFFICIENCIES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PERFORMANCE LIMITS; POLYMER BASED; POWER LAW; PROCESS CONDITION; SIMULATION MODEL; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 78650084145     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614468     Document Type: Conference Paper

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