Evolved phase separation toward balanced charge transport and high efficiency in polymer solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3646-3653

  Fan, Haijun ^a,b   Zhang, Maojie ^a,b   Guo, Xia ^a,b   Li, Yongfang ^a   Zhan, Xiaowei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

additive; charge transport; conjugated polymer; morphology; phase separation; polymer solar cell

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE CONTENTS; BALANCED CHARGE TRANSPORT; BLEND COMPOSITION; BLEND FILMS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE-CARRIER TRANSPORT; GEMINATE RECOMBINATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMER; MOBILITY RATIOS; MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION; NANO SCALE; POLYMER PHASE; POLYMER SOLAR CELL; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PROCESSING CONDITION; SOLAR IRRADIATION; SPACE CHARGE LIMITED CURRENTS;

ADDITIVES; CARRIER TRANSPORT; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HOLE MOBILITY; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; POLYMER FILMS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; POLYMER; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; SOLAR ENERGY;

FULLERENES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; POLYMERS; SOLAR ENERGY; THIOPHENES;

EID: 84862833327     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am200842y     Document Type: Article

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