MoO3-Au composite interfacial layer for high efficiency and air-stable organic solar cells

Organic Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 797-803

  Pan, Hongbin ^a,b   Zuo, Lijian ^a   Fu, Weifei ^a   Fan, Congcheng ^a   Andreasen, Birgitta ^c   Jiang, Xiaoqing ^b   Norrman, Kion ^c   Krebs, Frederik C ^c   Chen, Hongzheng ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anode modification; Organic solar cells; Stability

Indexed keywords

ANODES; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BUTYRIC ACID; COMPOSITE FILMS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EFFICIENCY; GOLD COMPOUNDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; STABILITY;

ANODE MODIFICATION; CARRIER RECOMBINATION; OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); ROOT MEAN SQUARE ROUGHNESS; SHUNT RESISTANCES; STABILITY IMPROVEMENT; [6 ,6]-PHENYL-C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84873020518     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2012.12.020     Document Type: Article

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