Efficiency improvement in organic solar cells by inserting a discotic liquid crystal

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2200-2205

  Zheng, Qiao ^a   Fang, Guojia ^a   Bai, Weibin ^b   Sun, Nanhai ^a   Qin, Pingli ^a   Fan, Xi ^a   Cheng, Fei ^a   Yuan, Longyan ^a   Zhao, Xingzhong ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Charge mobility; Discotic liquid crystal; Insertion layer; P3HT:PCBM; Phase transition

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; CHARGE MOBILITIES; DISCOTIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; FILL FACTOR; HOLE TRANSPORTING LAYERS; INSERTION LAYERS; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; OXIDE SUBSTRATES; P3HT:PCBM; PEDOT:PSS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SIMPLE METHOD;

BUTYRIC ACID; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FATTY ACIDS; FLUORINE; HOLE MOBILITY; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 79958112590     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.03.024     Document Type: Article

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