Overcoming interface losses in organic solar cells by applying low temperature, solution processed aluminum-doped zinc oxide electron extraction layers

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Volumn 1, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 6004-6009

  Stubhan, Tobias ^a   Litzov, Ivan ^a   Li, Ning ^a   Salinas, Michael ^a   Steidl, Matthias ^a   Sauer, Gerhard ^a   Forberich, Karen ^a   Matt, Gebhard J ^a   Halik, Marcus ^a   Brabec, Christoph J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM-DOPED ZINC OXIDE; ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; HIGH-TEMPERATURE PROCESSING; INVERTED POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION; ORGANIC ACTIVE LAYERS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); PROCESSING TEMPERATURE;

ALUMINUM; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EXTRACTION; PROCESSING; SOL-GELS; SOLAR CELLS; TEMPERATURE;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84876898742     PISSN: 20507488     EISSN: 20507496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3ta10987a     Document Type: Article

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