C60:LiF blocking layer for environmentally stable bulk heterojunction solar cells

Advanced Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 47, 2010, Pages 5404-5408

  Gao, Dong ^a   Helander, Michael G ^a   Wang, Zhi Bin ^a   Puzzo, Danny P ^a   Greiner, Mark T ^a   Lu, Zheng Hong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

fullerenes; lithium fluoride; nanocomposites; organic solar cells; transparent conductors

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING LAYERS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; DEVICE STABILITY; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; HOLE BLOCKING LAYERS; LITHIUM FLUORIDE; LONG LIFETIME; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PASSIVATION LAYER; POLYMER BULK; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LITHIUM; NANOCOMPOSITES; PASSIVATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

FLUORIDE; FULLERENE C60; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM FLUORIDE; NANOCOMPOSITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; SOLAR ENERGY;

FLUORIDES; FULLERENES; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 78650294542     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201002738     Document Type: Article

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