Performance comparison of conventional and inverted organic bulk heterojunction solar cells from optical and electrical aspects

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 451-457

  Chen, Dazheng ^a   Zhang, Chunfu ^a   Wang, Zhizhe ^a   Zhang, Jincheng ^a   Feng, Qian ^a   Xu, Shengrui ^a   Zhou, Xiaowei ^a   Hao, Yue ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conventional structure; electrical aspect; inverted structure; optical aspect; organic solar cells

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BULK-HETEROJUNCTION STRUCTURE; CHARGE DRIFT; EFFECTIVE AREA; ELECTRICAL ASPECT; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INVERTED ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; INVERTED STRUCTURE; OPTICAL ASPECT; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; SPACER LAYER;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84871728250     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2012.2224114     Document Type: Article

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