Poly(3-hexylthiophene) and [6,6]-phenyl-C 61-butyric acid methyl ester mixing in organic solar cells

Macromolecules

Volumn 45, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 6587-6599

  Ro, Hyun Wook ^a   Akgun, Bulent ^b,c   O'Connor, Brendan T ^d   Hammond, Matthew ^a   Kline, R Joseph ^a   Snyder, Chad R ^a   Satija, Sushil K ^b   Ayzner, Alexander L ^e   Toney, Michael F ^e   Soles, Christopher L ^a   Delongchamp, Dean M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d North Carolina State University   (United States)

^e SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CHAINS; BI-LAYER; BI-LAYER STRUCTURE; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; COLD CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLINITIES; DEGREES OF CRYSTALLINITY; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORTING MATERIALS; METHYL ESTERS; MIXING BEHAVIORS; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; MULTIPLE FACTORS; NANOSCALE MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; REGIORANDOM; SEMICRYSTALLINES; SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS; TRILAYER STRUCTURE; TRILAYERS;

BUTYRIC ACID; CARRIER MOBILITY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

MIXING;

EID: 84865607562     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma3008527     Document Type: Article

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