Effect of thermal annealing on the efficiency of poly (3-hexylthiphone):[6, 6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester bulk heterojunction solar cells

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Singh, Inderpreet ^a   Madhwal, Devinder ^a   Kumar, Jitender ^a   Bhatnagar, Pramod K ^b   Mathur, Parmatma C ^a   Bhatia, Charanjit S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction; conjugated polymer; nanomaterial; photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; EFFICIENCY; ESTERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HOLE MOBILITY; MOLECULES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CHARGE TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLYMER CHAIN STRUCTURES; [6 ,6]-PHENYL-C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS;

BUTYRIC ACID;

EID: 80655149528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3565485     Document Type: Article

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