Effect of organic salt doping on the performance of single layer bulk heterojunction organic solar cell

Solar Energy

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 95-99

  Yap, C C ^a   Yahaya, M ^a   Salleh, M M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROENGINEERING AND NANOELECTRONICS IMEN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; MEHPPV; Organic salt; Organic solar cell; PCBM

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; MEH-PPV; ORGANIC SALT; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PCBM;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC FIELDS; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SOLAR CELLS; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SALT; SOLAR POWER; TIN;

EID: 78650310063     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2010.10.019     Document Type: Article

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