Improving the efficiency of organic photovoltaic cells by introducing an ultrathin modification layer with a strong dipole moment

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1655-1658

  Fu, Guang Sheng ^a   Kong, Wei Guang ^a   Han, Ling Jie ^a   Yang, Qi Man ^a   Hou, Li Xin ^b   Yang, Shao Peng ^a  

^a HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China Lucky Film Corp   (China)

Author keywords

modification layer; photovoltaics; solar cell; work function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859972125     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5098-y     Document Type: Article

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