A polymer tandem solar cell with 10.6% power conversion efficiency

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  You, Jingbi ^a   Dou, Letian ^a   Yoshimura, Ken ^b   Kato, Takehito ^b,d   Ohya, Kenichiro ^b   Moriarty, Tom ^c   Emery, Keith ^c   Chen, Chun Chao ^a   Gao, Jing ^a   Li, Gang ^a   Yang, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^d OYAMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY[2,7 (5,5 BIS (3,7 DIMETHYLOCTYL) 5H DITHIENO[3,2 B:20,30 D]PYRAN) ALT 4,7 (5,6 DIFLUORO 2,1,3 BENZOTHIA DIAZOLE)]; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FUEL CELL; LIMITING FACTOR; MOBILITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYMER; SOLAR RADIATION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ENERGY CONVERSION; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; POLYMER PRODUCTION; PRODUCTIVITY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84874611797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2411     Document Type: Article

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