Effect of nanoparticle stabilizing ligands and ligand-capped gold nanoparticles in polymer solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 302-306

  Liu, Hongjun ^a   Goh, Wei Peng ^a   Leung, Man Yin ^a   Li, Yuning ^a,b   Norsten, Tyler B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buffer layer; Gold nanoparticle; P3HT:PCBM; PEDOT:PSS; Polymer solar cell; Time resolved fluorescence

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; P3HT:PCBM; PEDOT:PSS; POLYMER SOLAR CELL; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE;

BUFFER LAYERS; BUTYRIC ACID; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; FATTY ACIDS; GOLD COATINGS; LIGANDS; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; STYRENE;

GOLD;

EID: 80855133482     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.09.056     Document Type: Article

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