Organic photovoltaic cells: Novel organic semiconducting materials and molecular arrangement engineering

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 4143-4152

  Wang, ZiXuan ^a   Zhang, FuJun ^a   Wang, Jin ^a   Xu, XiaoWei ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Xu, Zheng ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

molecular arrangement; narrow band gap materials; photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869504739     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5202-3     Document Type: Review

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