Importance of disordered polymer segments to microstructure-dependent photovoltaic properties of polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 115, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 15057-15066

  Wu, Fu Chiao ^a   Huang, Ying Chou ^a   Cheng, Horng Long ^a   Chou, Wei Yang ^a   Tang, Fu Ching ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BLEND SYSTEM; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; DEGREE OF CONJUGATIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL POTENTIAL; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; METHYL ESTERS; NANOSCALE MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER SEGMENTS; POLYMER-FULLERENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PV PERFORMANCE; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL CALCULATION; STRONG CORRELATION; STRUCTURAL MODELS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; BLENDING; BUTYRIC ACID; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; EXCITONS; FATTY ACIDS; FULLERENES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; MODEL STRUCTURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 79961066617     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp2023296     Document Type: Article

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