Flexible organic/inorganic hybrid solar cells based on conjugated polymer and ZnO nanorod array

Semiconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Tong, Fei ^a   Kim, Kyusang ^a   Martinez, Daniel ^a   Thapa, Resham ^a   Ahyi, Ayayi ^a   Williams, John ^a   Kim, Dong Joo ^b   Lee, Sungkoo ^c   Lim, Eunhee ^c   Lee, Kyeong K ^c   Park, Minseo ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; BLEND SOLUTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; FILL FACTOR; FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELLS; FLEXIBLE TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; LOW TEMPERATURES; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC LAYERS; ORGANIC/INORGANIC HYBRIDS; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CHARACTERISTICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPINNING RATE; ZNO NANOROD ARRAYS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; SOLAR CELLS; TIN; TIN OXIDES; ZINC OXIDE;

NANORODS;

EID: 84866345910     PISSN: 02681242     EISSN: 13616641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0268-1242/27/10/105005     Document Type: Article

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