Air-stable triarylamine-based amorphous polymer as donor material for bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3509-3515

  Yasuda, Takeshi ^a,b   Suzuki, Takao ^c   Takahashi, Mitsuru ^c   Han, Liyuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOSOH CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amorphous; Bulk heterojunction; Polymer; Solar cell; Transistor; Triarylamine

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AIR STABILITY; AIR-STABLE; AMORPHOUS POLYMERS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; HOMOGENEOUS MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLYCRYSTALLINE FILM; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR IRRADIATION; TRIARYLAMINES; WEIGHT RATIOS;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HOLE MOBILITY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; THIOPHENE; TRANSISTORS;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS;

EID: 80053590433     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.08.013     Document Type: Article

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