Compositional and morphological studies of polythiophene/polyflorene blends in inverted architecture hybrid solar cells

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2418-2424

  Vaynzof, Yana ^a   Brenner, Thomas J K ^a,b   Kabra, Dinesh ^a   Sirringhaus, Henning ^a   Friend, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

hybrid optoelectronics; phase separation; photoelectron spectroscopy; polymer solar cell

Indexed keywords

1 ,3-BENZOTHIADIAZOLE; AIR INTERFACE; AVERAGE DOMAIN SIZE; BLEND FILMS; BLEND SOLUTION; BURIED INTERFACE; CRYSTALLINITIES; DENSITY WAVES; HYBRID DEVICES; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLY-THIOPHENE; POLYFLUORENES; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; THIN POLYMERS; TOP SURFACE; ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; XPS DEPTH PROFILING; ZNO; ZNO SUBSTRATE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 84861825005     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201103008     Document Type: Article

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