Influence of a novel fluorosurfactant modified PEDOT:PSS hole transport layer on the performance of inverted organic solar cells

Journal of Materials Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 25057-25064

  Lim, Fang Jeng ^a   Ananthanarayanan, Krishnamoorthy ^a   Luther, Joachim ^a   Ho, Ghim Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; FLUORO-SURFACTANT; HIGH-WORK-FUNCTION METAL; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; INVERTED DEVICES; INVERTED ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; ITO (INDIUM-TIN OXIDE); LONG TERM STABILITY; LOW WORK FUNCTION; METAL ELECTRODES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PEDOT:PSS; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS;

SOLAR CELLS; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 84869998938     PISSN: 09599428     EISSN: 13645501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2jm35646e     Document Type: Article

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