Influence of surface roughness of aluminum-doped zinc oxide buffer layers on the performance of inverted organic solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Cho, Sung Woo ^a   Kim, Young Tae ^a   Shim, Won Hyun ^a,b   Park, Sun Young ^a   Kim, Kwang Dae ^c   Seo, Hyun Ook ^c   Dey, Nilay Kumar ^c   Lim, Jae Hong ^a   Jeong, Yongsoo ^a   Lee, Kyu Hwan ^a   Kim, Young Dok ^c   Lim, Dong Chan ^a  

^a Korea Institute of Material Science   (South Korea)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; ALUMINUM-DOPED ZINC OXIDE; AZO FILMS; CONTACT AREAS; INDIUM TIN OXIDE COATED GLASS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ROUGHNESS;

ALUMINUM; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; ITO GLASS; METAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FILMS; OXIDE FILMS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIN; TIN OXIDES; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 78751521544     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3537961     Document Type: Article

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