Efficient organic tandem solar cells based on small molecules

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 3019-3028

  Riede, Moritz ^a   Uhrich, Christian ^b   Widmer, Johannes ^a   Timmreck, Ronny ^a   Wynands, David ^a   Schwartz, Gregor ^b   Gnehr, Wolf Michael ^b   Hildebrandt, Dirk ^b   Weiss, Andre ^b   Hwang, Jaehyung ^c   Sundarraj, Sudhakar ^c   Erk, Peter ^c   Pfeiffer, Martin ^b   Leo, Karl ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HELIATEK GMBH   (Germany)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

complementary absorption; doping; organic solar cells; small molecules; tandem solar cells

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ILLUMINATION; COMPLEMENTARY ABSORPTION; FILL FACTOR; FRAUNHOFER; ILLUMINATION ANGLE; ILLUMINATION INTENSITY; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PERCENTAGE POINTS; SEXITHIOPHENES; SMALL MOLECULES; SPACER THICKNESS; SUB-CELLS; SUN SPECTRA; TANDEM DEVICES; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS; TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOR; THICKNESS VARIATION; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; VISIBLE RANGE; ZINC PHTHALOCYANINES;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTIMIZATION; PHOSPHORUS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 80051777478     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201002760     Document Type: Article

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