Mixed solvents for reproducible photovoltaic bulk heterojunctions

Journal of Photonics for Energy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Zhongqiang ^a   Wang, Ergang ^b   Hou, Lintao ^a   Zhang, Fengling ^a   Andersson, Mats ^b   Inganäsa, Olle ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Mixed solvents; Organic solar cells; TQ1

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; DEVICE PROCESSING; DICHLOROBENZENES; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTIONS; MIXED SOLVENT; OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TQ1;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLVENTS; THIOPHENE; TOLUENE;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

EID: 84870620119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19477988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3606393     Document Type: Article

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