Comprehensive investigation of silver nanoparticle/aluminum electrodes for copper indium sulfide/polymer hybrid solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 116, Issue 36, 2012, Pages 19191-19196

  Arar, Mario ^a,b   Pein, Andreas ^c   Haas, Wernfried ^b   Hofer, Ferdinand ^b   Norrman, Kion ^d   Krebs, Frederik C ^d   Rath, Thomas ^a,b   Trimmel, Gregor ^a,b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c POLYMER COMPETENCE CENTER LEOBEN GMBH   (Austria)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER LAYERS; ABSORBER MATERIAL; ALUMINUM CATHODE; ALUMINUM OXIDE MATRIX; BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; CHARGE EXTRACTION; ELECTRODE MATERIAL; FILL FACTOR; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; OPTICAL INVESTIGATION; PURE ALUMINUM; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION; TIME OF FLIGHT SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ALUMINUM; CATHODES; COPPER; INDIUM; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOLAR CELLS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SILVER;

EID: 84866350760     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp306242e     Document Type: Article

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