A multilayered approach to polyfluorene water-based organic photovoltaics

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 102, Issue , 2012, Pages 114-124

  Stapleton, Andrew ^a   Vaughan, Ben ^a   Xue, Bofei ^a,b   Sesa, Elisa ^a   Burke, Kerry ^a,b   Zhou, Xiaojing ^a   Bryant, Glenn ^a   Werzer, Oliver ^a   Nelson, Andrew ^c   David Kilcoyne, A L ^d   Thomsen, Lars ^e   Wanless, Erica ^a   Belcher, Warwick ^a   Dastoor, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON   (Australia)

Author keywords

Morphology; Nanoparticles; Organic solar cells; Solar paint

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS; BULK-HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; DEPOSITED LAYER; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; EFFECTIVE CHARGE; INTER-PARTICLE INTERACTION; INTERPARTICLE CONNECTIVITY; LAYER DEFECTS; MULTI-LAYERED APPROACH; MULTILAYERED DEVICES; NANO PARTICULATES; NANOPARTICLE MORPHOLOGY; NANOSCALE ARCHITECTURES; OPTIMAL DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLYFLUORENES; POLYMER NANOPARTICLES; SOLAR PAINTS; STRESS CRACKING; WATER BASED; WATER-DISPERSED;

DISPERSIONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84861094212     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.03.016     Document Type: Article

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