Co-evaporated bulk heterojunction solar cells with >6.0% efficiency

Advanced Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 2768-2773

  Chen, Guo ^a   Sasabe, Hisahiro ^a   Wang, Zhongqiang ^a   Wang, Xiao Feng ^a   Hong, Ziruo ^a   Yang, Yang ^b   Kido, Junji ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction; co evaporation; photovoltaic; solar cells; squaraine

Indexed keywords

BLENDING RATIO; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CO-EVAPORATED; CO-EVAPORATIONS; DEVICE STRUCTURES; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SQUARAINES; VACUUM PROCESS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

COORDINATION COMPOUND; CYCLOBUTANE DERIVATIVE; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHTHALOCYANINE; SQUARAINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY; VACUUM;

COORDINATION COMPLEXES; CYCLOBUTANES; FULLERENES; INDOLES; PHENOLS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY; VACUUM;

EID: 84861149832     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201200234     Document Type: Article

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