Metal oxide nanoparticles as an electron-transport layer in high-performance and stable inverted polymer solar cells

Advanced Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 5267-5272

  You, Jingbi ^a   Chen, Chun Chao ^a   Dou, Letian ^a   Murase, Seiichiro ^a   Duan, Hsin Sheng ^a   Hawks, Steven A ^a   Xu, Tao ^b   Son, Hae Jung ^b   Yu, Luping ^b   Li, Gang ^a   Yang, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction solar cells; electron transport layers; inverted structures; polymer solar cells

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; INVERTED STRUCTURE; METAL OXIDE NANOPARTICLES; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SINGLE CELLS; ZNO;

CESIUM; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; ZINC OXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

INDIUM TIN OXIDE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; TIN DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; SOLAR ENERGY;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; SOLAR ENERGY; TIN COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84867090178     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201201958     Document Type: Article

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