Efficient ternary blend bulk heterojunction solar cells with tunable open-circuit voltage

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 37, 2011, Pages 14534-14537

  Khlyabich, Petr P ^a   Burkhart, Beate ^a   Thompson, Barry C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY BLENDS; BIS-ADDUCTS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; FILL FACTOR; METHYL ESTERS; MODEL SYSTEM; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; PROCESSING STEPS; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; TERNARY BLENDS; THEORETICAL LIMITS;

BUTYRIC ACID; FATTY ACIDS; FULLERENES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

BUTYRIC ACID; FULLERENE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL; CELL; CELL JUNCTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY; DONOR; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FRACTIONATION; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENT;

EID: 80052803922     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja205977z     Document Type: Article

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