Control of the active layer nanomorphology by using co-additives towards high-performance bulk heterojunction solar cells

Organic Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1736-1741

  Aïch, Badrou Réda ^a,b   Lu, Jianping ^a   Beaupré, Serge ^b   Leclerc, Mario ^b   Tao, Ye ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Co additives; Conjugated polymers; Nanomorphology; PCBM; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION (BHJ); BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; NANOMORPHOLOGIES; ORTHO-DICHLOROBENZENE; PCBM; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; [6 ,6]-PHENYL-C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84862269116     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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