Photovoltaic properties in interpenetrating heterojunction organic solar cells utilizing MoO3 and ZnO charge transport buffer layers

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4915-4921

  Hori, Tetsuro ^a   Moritou, Hiroki ^a   Fukuoka, Naoki ^a   Sakamoto, Junki ^a   Fujii, Akihiko ^a   Ozaki, Masanori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buffer layers; Interpenetrating heterojunction; Molybdenum trioxide; Organic solar cells; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; INTERPENETRATING HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLYBDENUM TRIOXIDE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; ORGANIC THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE);

BUFFER LAYERS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DEPOSITION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; NANOBELTS; TIN OXIDES; ZINC OXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 80051544779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3114915     Document Type: Article

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