Recent development of the inverted configuration organic solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1785-1799

  Zhang, Fujun ^a   Xu, Xiaowei ^a   Tang, Weihua ^b   Zhang, Jian ^c   Zhuo, Zuliang ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Wang, Jin ^a   Xu, Zheng ^a   Wang, Yongsheng ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Degrade mechanism; Inverted configuration; Organic solar cells; Power conversion efficiency; Stability

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; DEGRADE MECHANISM; DEVICE LIFETIME; HIGH STABILITY; HIGH-WORK-FUNCTION METAL; INVERTED CONFIGURATION; LOW WORK FUNCTION; METAL OXIDES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; REASONABLE VALUE; REGULAR STRUCTURE;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; OXYGEN; PHASE SEPARATION; STABILITY; WORK FUNCTION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 79955478563     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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