A nanoparticle approach towards morphology controlled organic photovoltaics (OPV)

Polymers

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1242-1258

  Andersen, Thomas R ^a   Yan, Quanxiang ^b,c   Larsen Olsen, Thue T ^a   Søndergaard, Roar ^a   Li, Qi ^b   Andreasen, Birgitta ^a   Norrman, Kion ^a   Jørgensen, Mikkel ^a   Yue, Wei ^c   Yu, Donghong ^c   Krebs, Frederik C ^a   Chen, Hongzheng ^b   Bundgaard, Eva ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Morphology control; Organic photovoltaics; Silicon nano particles

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; FILL FACTOR; METHYL ESTERS; MORPHOLOGY AND SIZE; MORPHOLOGY CONTROL; MORPHOLOGY-CONTROLLED; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; LITHIUM; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; OLIGOMERS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHENOLS;

GRAFTING (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84864300085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym4021242     Document Type: Article

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