Optimum morphology and performance gains of organic solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 003477-003481

  Ray, Biswajit ^a   Alam, Muhammad A ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING LAYERS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CARRIER RECOMBINATION; CELL EFFICIENCY; DEGREE OF RANDOMNESS; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; OPTIMAL GEOMETRY; ORDERED STRUCTURES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PERFORMANCE GAIN; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TRANSPORT PARAMETERS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84861060210     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186696     Document Type: Conference Paper

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