Enhanced photocurrent and open-circuit voltage in a 3-layer cascade organic solar cell

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Cnops, Kjell ^a,b   Rand, Barry P ^a   Cheyns, David ^a   Heremans, Paul ^a,b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIPOLAR; BI-LAYER; CASCADE ARCHITECTURE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; RECOMBINATION LOSS; SUBPHTHALOCYANINES; TETRACENE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84867536261     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4757575     Document Type: Article

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