Efficiency enhancement of organic photovoltaics by addition of carbon nanotubes into both active and hole transport layer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Stylianakis, Minas M ^a   Kymakis, Emmanuel ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; EFFICIENCY GAIN; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; HOLE TRANSPORTS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PERCOLATION PATH; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HOLE MOBILITY; SOLVENTS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84857928812     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3690056     Document Type: Article

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