Enhanced efficiency in plastic solar cells via energy matched solution processed NiO x interlayers

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 813-820

  Steirer, K Xerxes ^a,b   Ndione, Paul F ^e   Widjonarko, N Edwin ^c   Lloyd, Matthew T ^e   Meyer, Jens ^d   Ratcliff, Erin L ^b   Kahn, Antoine ^d   Armstrong, Neal R ^b   Curtis, Calvin J ^e   Ginley, David S ^e   Berry, Joseph J ^e   Olson, Dana C ^e  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

^e NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BAND EDGE ENERGY; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CONDUCTION BAND ENERGY; CONTACT PROPERTIES; DEVICE MODELING; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENTS; ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; OXYGEN PLASMA TREATMENTS; PEDOT:PSS; PLASTIC SOLAR CELLS; POLY(STYRENE SULFONATE); POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLUTION-PROCESSED;

BUTYRIC ACID; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NICKEL OXIDE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY;

EID: 81255164347     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201100234     Document Type: Article

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