Photovoltaic performance enhancement in P3HT/ZnO hybrid bulk-heterojunction solar cells induced by semiconducting liquid crystal ligands

Organic Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2757-2762

  Li, Fan ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Yuan, Kai ^a   Chen, Yiwang ^a  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Liquid crystals; Organic photovoltaics; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INTERFACE STATES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGANDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; ZINC OXIDE; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; HYBRID BULK HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFACE MODIFICATION; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SELF-ORGANIZING BEHAVIOR; TRANSFER EFFICIENCY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84865629777     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2012.08.008     Document Type: Article

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