Degradation mechanism of organic photovoltaic devices with bathocuproine buffer layer

Journal of Photonics for Energy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Chih Chien ^a   Su, Wei Cheng ^a   Huang, Jia Cing ^a   Lin, Chi Feng ^b   Liu, Shun Wei ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Degradation; Organic; Photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

AFM; AFM IMAGE; ATOMIC FORCE; BATHOCUPROINE; DEGRADATION MECHANISM; HEATING TIME; HEATING TREATMENTS; OPTICAL FIELD; ORGANIC; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PENTACENES; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE VALUES; SERIES RESISTANCES;

BUFFER LAYERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DEGRADATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE;

HEATING;

EID: 84870605295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19477988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3555079     Document Type: Article

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