A study of the factors influencing the performance of ternary MEH-PPV:porphyrin:PCBM heterojunction devices: Electronic effects in porphyrinoid ternary blend bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 98, Issue , 2012, Pages 308-316

  Cooling, Nathan A ^a   Zhou, Xiaojing ^a   Sales, Timothy A ^a   Sauer, Samantha E ^a   Lind, Samuel J ^b   Gordon, Keith C ^b   Jones, Timothy W ^c   Burke, Kerry B ^a,c   Dastoor, Paul C ^a   Belcher, Warwick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

N confused porphyrin; Organic solar cells; Porphyrin; Recombination; Ternary blend

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CELL EFFICIENCY; CHARGE MOBILITIES; ELECTRONIC EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC NATURES; HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; HOLE-TRANSPORTING POLYMER; MEH-PPV; METALLATION; N-ALKYLATION; N-CONFUSED PORPHYRINS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PORPHYRINOIDS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RECOMBINATION; RELATIVE ENERGIES; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; TERNARY BLENDS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EQUIPMENT; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PORPHYRINS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84855308478     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.10.036     Document Type: Article

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