Functionalized squaraine donors for nanocrystalline organic photovoltaics

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 972-978

  Wei, Guodan ^a   Xiao, Xin ^a   Wang, Siyi ^b   Sun, Kai ^a   Bergemann, Kevin J ^a   Thompson, Mark E ^b   Forrest, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

small molecule; solar cell; solution process

Indexed keywords

ARYL AMINES; FILL FACTOR; FUNCTIONALIZED; GREEN LIGHT; HOLE TRANSPORTS; INTERMOLECULAR PACKING; NANOCRYSTALLINE SOLAR CELLS; NANOCRYSTALLINES; NEAR INFRA RED; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SMALL MOLECULES; SOLUTION PROCESS; SPECTRAL REGION; SQUARAINES; SYMMETRIC MOLECULES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INFRARED DEVICES; SOLAR CELLS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOMATERIAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84856146444     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn204676j     Document Type: Article

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