Visibly transparent polymer solar cells produced by solution processing

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 7185-7190

  Chen, Chun Chao ^a   Dou, Letian ^a   Zhu, Rui ^a   Chung, Choong Heui ^a   Song, Tze Bin ^a   Zheng, Yue Bing ^a   Hawks, Steve ^a   Li, Gang ^a   Weiss, Paul S ^a   Yang, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

polymer solar cell; silver nanowire; solution process; transparent electrode; transparent solar cell

Indexed keywords

BUILDING-INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS; MILD SOLUTION; NEAR INFRARED REGION; OPTIMIZED DEVICES; OXIDE COMPOSITES; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; PORTABLE ELECTRONICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SILVER NANOWIRES; SOLUTION PROCESS; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE; TRANSPARENT POLYMER;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; POLYMERS;

SOLAR CELLS;

NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYMERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 84865587568     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3029327     Document Type: Article

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