Improving the performance of inorganic-organic hybrid photovoltaic devices by uniform ordering of ZnO nanorods and near-atmospheric pressure nitrogen plasma treatment

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Oh, Seungjun ^a,b   Nagata, Takahiro ^a   Volk, János ^c   Wakayama, Yutaka ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER RECOMBINATION; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERFACES; HYBRID PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; INORGANIC-ORGANIC HYBRID; NITROGEN PLASMA TREATMENT; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; PRESSURE TREATMENTS; TWO APPROACHES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANORODS; NITROGEN PLASMA; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PLASMA APPLICATIONS;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84874876374     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4793283     Document Type: Article

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