Enhanced charge collection in confined bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Allen, Jonathan E ^a   Yager, Kevin G ^a   Hlaing, Htay ^b,c   Nam, Chang Yong ^a   Ocko, Benjamin M ^b   Black, Charles T ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; CHARGE COLLECTION; CYLINDRICAL PORES; GRAZING INCIDENCE X-RAY DIFFRACTION; METHYL ESTERS; NANO-METER-SCALE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTIONS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT;

BUTYRIC ACID; FATTY ACIDS; HOLE MOBILITY; SOLAR CELLS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 80055000705     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3651509     Document Type: Article

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