Kelvin probe force microscopic imaging of the energy barrier and energetically favorable offset of interfaces in double-junction organic solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1279-1286

  Siddiki, Mahbube K ^a   Venkatesan, Swaminathan ^a   Galipeau, David ^a   Qiao, Qiquan ^a  

^a South Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

double junction; electron transport layer; hole transport layer; multijunction; organic photovoltaics; recombination tunneling layer

Indexed keywords

CASTING; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENERGY BARRIERS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MULTI-JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; NIOBIUM OXIDE; OXIDE MINERALS; PROBES; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; ZINC OXIDE;

DOUBLE JUNCTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; MULTIJUNCTION; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; RECOMBINATION/TUNNELING LAYER;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84874609400     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am302235w     Document Type: Article

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