Planar and textured heterojunction organic photovoltaics based on chloroindium phthalocyanine (ClInPc) versus titanyl phthalocyanine (TiOPc) donor layers

Organic Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 383-393

  Wang, Weining ^a   Placencia, Diogenes ^a   Armstrong, Neal R ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterojunction; Interface dipole; Near IR; Organic solar cell; Phthalocyanine; UV photoemission

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; INFRARED DEVICES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOEMISSION; SOLAR CELLS; UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SYSTEMS;

INTERFACE DIPOLE; NEAR-IR; PHTHALOCYANINE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REVERSE-SATURATION CURRENTS; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT; UV PHOTOEMISSION; WEAK INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 78650933599     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2010.11.015     Document Type: Article

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