Improved power conversion efficiency in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells with radial electron contacts

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 7986-7991

  Allen, Jonathan E ^a   Black, Charles T ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

atomic layer deposition; organic; photovoltaic; solar cell; template; TiO2

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED ELECTRONS; ACTIVE LAYER; ACTIVE MATERIAL; BLEND MATERIALS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; BULK-HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; ELECTRON COLLECTIONS; METHYL ESTERS; NANO-METER-SCALE; ORGANIC; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TEMPLATE; TIO;

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; BUTYRIC ACID; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FATTY ACIDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 80055019103     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2031963     Document Type: Article

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