Organic solar cells with graphene electrodes and vapor printed poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) as the hole transporting layers

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6370-6377

  Park, Hyesung ^a   Howden, Rachel M ^b   Barr, Miles C ^b   Bulović, Vladimir ^a   Gleason, Karen ^b   Kong, Jing ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

APCVD; chemical vapor deposition; grapheme; LPCVD; oCVD PEDOT; organic solar cell; poly(3,4 ethylenedioxythiophene); vapor printing

Indexed keywords

APCVD; GRAPHEME; LPCVD; OCVD PEDOT; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; HOLE MOBILITY; PRINTING; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; WORK FUNCTION;

VAPORS;

FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; POLY(3,4 ETHYLENE DIOXYTHIOPHENE); POLY(3,4-ETHYLENE DIOXYTHIOPHENE); POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; GRAPHITE; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PHENOMENA; POLYMERS; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84864239468     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301901v     Document Type: Article

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