The effect of p-type doping on the performance of organic thin-film photovoltaic devices-M-MTDATA/C60 and 2-TNATA/C60 systems

Journal of Photonics for Energy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Umeda, Takao ^a   Chujo, Keigo ^a   Nomura, Yasuhiro ^a   Tsuchida, Kotaro ^a   Hara, Michihiro ^a   Terashima, Sayo ^b   Koji, Yasuhiro ^b   Kageyama, Hiroshi ^c   Shirota, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a FUKUI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 TNATA; Amorphous molecular material; F4TCNQ; M MTDATA; Organic photovoltaic device; P doping; Pn heterojunction device; Power conversion efficiency

Indexed keywords

2-TNATA; AMORPHOUS MOLECULAR MATERIALS; F4-TCNQ; M-MTDATA; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; P-DOPING; PN-HETEROJUNCTION DEVICE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NAPHTHALENE; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; ORGANIC POLYMERS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84870626384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19477988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3556725     Document Type: Article

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