Controlling vertical morphology within the active layer of organic photovoltaics using poly(3-hexylthiophene) nanowires and phenyl-C 61-butyric acid methyl ester

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3132-3140

  Rice, Andrew H ^a   Giridharagopal, Rajiv ^b   Zheng, Sam X ^a   Ohuchi, Fumio S ^a   Ginger, David S ^b   Luscombe, Christine K ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction solar cells; conductive AFM; P3HT nanowires; photoconductive AFM

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CONDUCTIVE AFM; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; DRYING TIME; METHYL ESTERS; NANOWIRE SURFACE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; P3HT NANOWIRES; PHASE MIGRATION; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE AFM; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SIMILAR MATERIAL;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; BUTYRIC ACID; CARRIER MOBILITY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; FULLERENES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; SOLAR CELLS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 79955403291     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2002695     Document Type: Article

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