Molecular order in high-efficiency polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 8248-8257

  Hammond, Matthew R ^a   Kline, R Joseph ^a   Herzing, Andrew A ^a   Richter, Lee J ^a   Germack, David S ^a   Ro, Hyun Wook ^a   Soles, Christopher L ^a   Fischer, Daniel A ^a   Xu, Tao ^b   Yu, Luping ^b   Toney, Michael F ^c   Delongchamp, Dean M ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction; crystallinity; organic photovoltaics; orientation; polymers

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BLEND FILMS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CRYSTALLINITIES; ENERGY FILTERED TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; LOW DEGREE; METHYL ESTERS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MOLECULAR ORDERS; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE MORPHOLOGY; ORDERED POLYMERS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTIONS; ORIENTATION INFORMATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; VERTICAL DIRECTION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION DATA;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BUTYRIC ACID; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIFFRACTION; FATTY ACIDS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMERS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THIOPHENE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 80055008128     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202951e     Document Type: Article

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