Single nanowire OPV properties of a fullerene-capped P3HT dyad investigated using conductive and photoconductive AFM

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1149-1157

  Kamkar, Daniel A ^a   Wang, Mingfeng ^a   Wudl, Fred ^a   Nguyen, Thuc Quyen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction photovoltaic; conductive AFM; fullerene; nanowires; photoconductive AFM; photocurrent; poly(3 hexylthiophene); self assembly

Indexed keywords

AFM; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE GENERATION; CONDUCTIVE AFM; FIBROUS NETWORKS; METHYL ESTERS; MOLECULAR ADDITIVES; MOLECULAR SELF ASSEMBLY; NANO SCALE; PHOTOCURRENT GENERATIONS; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE GENERATION; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); SINGLE NANOWIRES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARRIER MOBILITY; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOWIRES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

CONDUCTIVE FILMS;

(6,6) PHENYL C61 BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTER; (6,6)-PHENYL C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTER; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; NANOWIRE; POLY(3 HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLY(3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; METHODOLOGY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FULLERENES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOWIRES; THIOPHENES;

EID: 84857722499     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn204565h     Document Type: Article

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