Performance characteristics of polymer photovoltaic solar cells with an additive-incorporated active layer

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kim, Hyomin ^a   Ok, Sunseong ^a   Chae, Hyunhee ^a   Choe, Youngson ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Excitons; Polymer solar cell; Power conversion efficiency

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; BUTYRIC ACID; EXCITONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; POLYMERS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; POLY(3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE-2 ,5-DIYL); POLYMER PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; UV-VIS ABSORPTION SPECTRA; X-RAY DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM; [6 ,6]-PHENYL-C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS;

POLYMER SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84862955404     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-56     Document Type: Article

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