Reduction of collection efficiency of charge carriers with increasing cell size in polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 343-347

  Jeong, Won Ik ^a   Lee, Jane ^a   Park, Sun Young ^b   Kang, Jae Wook ^b   Kim, Jang Joo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Material Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Large area solar cells; organic photovoltaics; series resistance

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; CELL GEOMETRIES; CELL SIZE; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; EQUATION BASED; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; FILL FACTOR; JUNCTION POTENTIAL; LARGE-AREA SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLYMER BULK; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RECOMBINATION LOSS; SERIES RESISTANCES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 78650696710     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201001578     Document Type: Article

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