Significant enhancement of the power conversion efficiency for organic photovoltaic cells due to a P3HT pillar layer containing ZnSe quantum dots

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 10476-10483

  Kim, Dae Hun ^a   Lee, Young Hun ^a   Lee, Dea Uk ^a   Kim, Tae Whan ^a   Kim, Sungwoo ^b   Kim, Sang Wook ^b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

INTERFACIAL REGION; MIXED SOLUTION; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PLANAR LAYERS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84861141160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010476     Document Type: Article

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