Hybrid carbon nanotube networks as efficient hole extraction layers for organic photovoltaics

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 556-565

  Dabera, G Dinesha M R ^a   Jayawardena, K D G Imalka ^a   Prabhath, M R Ranga ^a   Yahya, Iskandar ^a   Tan, Y Yuan ^a   Nismy, N Aamina ^a   Shiozawa, Hidetsugu ^b   Sauer, Markus ^b   Ruiz Soria, G ^b   Ayala, Paola ^b   Stolojan, Vlad ^a   Adikaari, A A Damitha T ^a,c   Jarowski, Peter D ^a   Pichler, Thomas ^b   Silva, S Ravi P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Department of Energy and Climate Change ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; hole transport layer; nanohybrids; organic photovoltaics; rr P3HT s SWNT

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CARBON NANOTUBE NETWORK; CHARGE TRANSFER PROCESS; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON-DOPING; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; HOLE-DOPING; LARGE-AREA ELECTRONICS; LOW DENSITY; NANOHYBRIDS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PERCOLATED NETWORK; POLY(3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REGIO-REGULAR; RR-P3HT; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HOLE MOBILITY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE;

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL; ORGANOSELENIUM DERIVATIVE; POLY(3 HEXYL)SELENOPHENE; POLY(3-HEXYL)SELENOPHENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; ORGANOSELENIUM COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLAR ENERGY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872842089     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn304705t     Document Type: Article

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