Sputtered nickel oxide thin film for efficient hole transport layer in polymer-fullerene bulk-heterojunction organic solar cell

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 520, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3813-3818

  Widjonarko, N Edwin ^a,b   Ratcliff, Erin L ^c   Perkins, Craig L ^b   Sigdel, Ajaya K ^b,d   Zakutayev, Andriy ^b   Ndione, Paul F ^b   Gillaspie, Dane T ^b   Ginley, David S ^b   Olson, Dana C ^b   Berry, Joseph J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hole transport layer; Nickel oxide; Organic solar cells; Organic oxide interface; Selective interlayer; Work function

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; COMPATIBLE MATERIALS; DESIGN FLEXIBILITY; DEVICE EFFICIENCY; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; FLEXIBLE DEVICE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; METHYL ESTERS; NICKEL OXIDE THIN FILMS; ORGANIC ACTIVE LAYERS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; OXIDE THIN FILMS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLYMER-FULLERENE; PRODUCTION COST; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; ROLL TO ROLL MANUFACTURING; SELECTIVE INTERLAYER; ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

ALIGNMENT; BLENDING; FERMI LEVEL; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HOLE MOBILITY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETRONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

NICKEL OXIDE;

EID: 84858336308     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2011.10.059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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