Investigation of VOPcPhO as an acceptor material for bulk heterojunction solar cells

Organic Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2532-2537

  Abdullah, Shahino Mah ^a   Ahmad, Zubair ^a   Aziz, Fakhra ^b   Sulaiman, Khaulah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b GIK INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Donor acceptor blend; P3HT; Solar cell; VOPcPhO

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; HOLE MOBILITY; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CONVERSATION EFFICIENCIES; DONOR-ACCEPTOR BLENDS; HOLE-TRANSPORTING MATERIALS; P3HT; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SOLAR CELL FABRICATION; VOPCPHO;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84865307749     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2012.07.030     Document Type: Article

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