Solution processable quinacridone based materials as acceptor for organic heterojunction solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2670-2676

  Javed, Iqbal ^a   Zhang, Zoulun ^a   Peng, Tai ^a   Zhou, Tianlei ^a   Zhang, Hongyu ^a   Issa Khan, Muhammad ^b   Liu, Yu ^a   Wang, Yue ^a  

^a Jilin University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Electron acceptor; Heterojunction solar cells; Organic dyes; Quinacridone

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC COMPOUNDS; DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; ELECTROCHEMICAL STABILITIES; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON WITHDRAWING GROUP; ELECTRON-ACCEPTING; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; MAXIMUM POWER; ORGANIC DYE; ORGANIC HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PROCESSABLE; QUINACRIDONE; SOLAR IRRADIATION; SOLUBLE MATERIALS; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; VISIBLE REGION;

CARBONYL COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; MATERIALS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; THIOPHENE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 79959302996     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.05.040     Document Type: Article

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