Efficient semitransparent inverted polymer solar cells with the anode of tunable incident light transmittance

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1027-1029

  Xu, Yang ^a   Shen, Liang ^a   Yu, Wenjuan ^a   Zhang, Haifeng ^a   Chen, Weiyou ^a   Ruan, Shengping ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Inverted; semitransparent; solar cells

Indexed keywords

DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; HIGH TRANSMISSION; HIGH TRANSMITTANCE; INCIDENT LIGHT; INVERTED; LIGHT COUPLINGS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SEMITRANSPARENT; VISIBLE REGION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; SOLAR CELLS;

MOLYBDENUM OXIDE;

EID: 84862848939     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2012.2196971     Document Type: Article

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