Optimization of antireflective zinc oxide nanorod arrays on seedless substrate for bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Woo Choi, Hyung ^a   Lee, Kyu Sung ^b   Alford, T L ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTIVE; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; FILL FACTOR; HOLE INJECTION; MAXIMUM POWER; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); SEED LAYER; ZINC CHLORIDE; ZINC OXIDE NANOROD ARRAYS; ZNO NANOROD; ZNO NANOROD ARRAYS; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ITO GLASS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTIMIZATION; TIN; TIN OXIDES; ZINC OXIDE;

NANORODS;

EID: 84867516125     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4757997     Document Type: Article

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