Environment-friendly energy from all-carbon solar cells based on fullerene-C60

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1138-1140

  Chen, Li Jia ^a   Song, Qun Liang ^a   Xiong, Zu Hong ^a   Huang, Jun Hua ^a   He, Fu ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

C60; Charge transfer; Environment fridenly; Single layer solar cell

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; C60; ENERGY SOURCE; ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY; ENVIRONMENT-FRIDENLY; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SINGLE LAYER; SINGLE LAYER SOLAR CELL;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; ION EXCHANGE; MASS TRANSFER; NAPHTHALENE; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SOLAR CELLS; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 79951851936     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.12.037     Document Type: Article

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