Enhancing the stability of polymer solar cells by improving the conductivity of the nanostructured MoO3 hole-transport layer

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 6831-6841

  Elumalai, Naveen Kumar ^a,b   Saha, Amitaksha ^c   Vijila, Chellappan ^b   Jose, Rajan ^d   Jie, Zhang ^b   Ramakrishna, Seeram ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PAHANG   (Malaysia)

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EID: 84876721435     PISSN: 14639076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3cp50994j     Document Type: Article

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