Effect of C60 as an electron buffer layer in polythiophene-methanofullerene based bulk heterojunction solar cells

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 209, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1592-1597

  Elumalai, Naveen Kumar ^a   Yin, Leung Man ^b   Chellappan, Vijila ^b   Jie, Zhang ^b   Peining, Zhu ^a   Ramakrishna, Seeram ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction solar cells; charge mobility; device physics; PhotoCELIV

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; EXTRACTION; HETEROJUNCTIONS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CHARGE MOBILITIES; DEVICE PHYSICS; ELECTRON BUFFER LAYERS; PHOTO-CELIV; PHOTO-INDUCED CHARGE; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84864964995     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201228082     Document Type: Article

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