Stacking orientation mediation of pentacene and derivatives for high open-circuit voltage organic solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1079-1083

  Chou, Chi Ta ^a   Lin, Chien Hung ^b   Tai, Yian ^a   Liu, Chin Hsin J ^a   Chen, Li Chyong ^c   Chen, Kuei Hsien ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE-DEPENDENT; FUNCTIONALIZED; MOLECULAR STACKING; NEAR EDGE X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PENTACENES; STACKING ORIENTATION; SUBSTRATE SURFACE;

MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SOLAR CELLS;

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84860511749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz201615v     Document Type: Article

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