Graphene oxide interlayers for robust, high-efficiency organic photovoltaics

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 3006-3012

  Murray, Ian P ^a,b   Lou, Sylvia J ^b,c   Cote, Laura J ^a   Loser, Stephen ^b,c   Kadleck, Cameron J ^a,b   Xu, Tao ^b,e   Szarko, Jodi M ^b,c   Rolczynski, Brian S ^b,c   Johns, James E ^a   Huang, Jiaxing ^a   Yu, Luping ^b,e   Chen, Lin X ^b,c,d   Marks, Tobin J ^b,c,d   Hersam, Mark C ^a,b,c  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b Argonne Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy Conversion and Storage

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; COMMERCIAL VIABILITY; CURRENT GENERATION; FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELLS; GRAPHENE OXIDES; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA; MAJOR FACTORS; MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PEDOT:PSS; SINGLE LAYER; TEMPLATING;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DURABILITY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; THERMAL AGING; THIOPHENE;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 84860205351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz201493d     Document Type: Article

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