Solvent additives for tuning the photovoltaic properties of polymerfullerene solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3536-3542

  De Sio, Antonietta ^a   Madena, Thomas ^a   Huber, Ralph ^a   Parisi, Jürgen ^a   Neyshtadt, Shany ^b   Deschler, Felix ^b   Da Como, Enrico ^b   Esposito, Salvatore ^c   Von Hauff, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ENEA CR Portici   (Italy)

Author keywords

Additive; Bulk heterojunction; Morphology; Photocurrent; Polymer solar cell; Solvent

Indexed keywords

1 ,2-DICHLOROBENZENE; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CRYSTALLINITIES; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERFACES; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION; FILL FACTOR; FILM FORMATIONS; IN-PLANE; KELVIN PROBE FORCE MICROSCOPY; METHYL ESTERS; MIXED SOLVENT; OPTICAL MODELING; PHASE SEGREGATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER SOLAR CELL; POLYMER-FULLERENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SIMPLE METHOD; TETRAHYDRONAPHTHALENES;

ADDITIVES; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BUTYRIC ACID; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON MOBILITY; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MORPHOLOGY; NAPHTHALENE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE INTERFACES; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMER BLENDS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 80053582164     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.08.019     Document Type: Article

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