A study of the factors influencing the performance of ternary MEH-PPV:porphyrin:PCBM heterojunction devices: A steric approach to controlling charge recombination

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1767-1774

  Cooling, Nathan ^a   Burke, Kerry B ^a,b   Zhou, Xiaojing ^a   Lind, Samuel J ^c   Gordon, Keith C ^c   Jones, Timothy W ^d   Dastoor, Paul C ^a   Belcher, Warwick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Organic solar cells; Porphyrin; Recombination; Ternary blend

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BAND GAPS; BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DFT CALCULATION; FILM STRUCTURE; HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; MEH-PPV; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHENYL GROUP; RECOMBINATION; SCANNING PROBES; SCANNING TRANSMISSION X RAY MICROSCOPY; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; STERIC BULK; TERNARY BLEND; UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPY;

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SOLAR CELLS;

PORPHYRINS;

EID: 79955483025     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.01.046     Document Type: Article

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