Hierarchical nanomorphologies promote exciton dissociation in polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3707-3713

  Chen, Wei ^a   Xu, Tao ^b   He, Feng ^b   Wang, Wei ^b   Wang, Cheng ^c   Strzalka, Joseph ^d   Liu, Yun ^e,f   Wen, Jianguo ^a   Miller, Dean J ^a   Chen, Jihua ^g   Hong, Kunlun ^g   Yu, Luping ^b   Darling, Seth B ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f University of Delaware   (United States)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction; charge photogeneration; device performance; hierarchical nanomorphology; Organic photovoltaics; X ray scattering

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE PHOTOGENERATION; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; NANOMORPHOLOGIES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; DISSOCIATION; EXCITONS; FULLERENES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMERS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THIOPHENE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 80052820857     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl201715q     Document Type: Article

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