Efficient polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells with cesium acetate as the cathode interfacial layer

Renewable Energy

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 565-569

  Jia, Yuehua ^a,b   Yang, Liying ^a,b   Qin, Wenjing ^a,b   Yin, Shougen ^a,b   Zhang, Fengling ^a,c   Wei, Jun ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Tianjin Key Lab for Photoelectric Materials and Devices   (China)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cathode buffer layer; Cesium acetate; Interlayer; Polymer bulk heterojunction; Polymer solar cells

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; CHARGE COLLECTION; CHARGE TRANSPORTATION; CONTROL DEVICE; ELECTRON COLLECTIONS; INTERFACE RESISTANCE; INTERFACIAL CONTACT; INTERFACIAL LAYER; INTERLAYER; KELVIN PROBE MEASUREMENTS; LOW WORK FUNCTION; METHANOFULLERENES; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC ACTIVE LAYERS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER BULK; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REGIO-REGULAR; STATIC CONTACT ANGLE; WHITE-LIGHT ILLUMINATION;

BUFFER LAYERS; CESIUM; CONTACT ANGLE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYDROPHOBICITY; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS; WORK FUNCTION;

CATHODES;

ACETATE (ESTER); CESIUM; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; FULLERENE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POLYMER; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 84865293328     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.07.012     Document Type: Article

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