Nitrogen doped amorphous chromium oxide: Stability improvement and application for the hole-transporting layer of organic solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1005-1010

  Qin, Pingli ^a,b   Fang, Guojia ^a   He, Qin ^b   Sun, Nanhai ^a   Fan, Xi ^a   Zheng, Qiao ^a   Chen, Fei ^a   Wan, Jiawei ^a   Zhao, Xingzhong ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Hole transporting layer; Nitrogen doped amorphous chromium oxide; Organic solar cell; Stability

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACIDS; CHROMIUM OXIDES; DEFECT SITES; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FILM SURFACES; FLOW RATIOS; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; HALL EFFECT MEASUREMENT; HOLE-TRANSPORTING LAYERS; METHYL ESTERS; NITROGEN-DOPED; OPTIMIZED PARAMETER; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; P-TYPE; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; STABILITY IMPROVEMENT; WATER DISSOCIATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHROMIUM; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; FLUORINE; NANOCOMPOSITES; NITROGEN; OXIDE FILMS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; STABILITY; SUBSTRATES; TIN; TIN OXIDES; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

AMORPHOUS FILMS;

EID: 78751643507     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.12.015     Document Type: Article

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