Improving performance of polymer solar cells based on PSBTBT/PC 71BM via controlled solvent vapor annealing

Organic Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1874-1881

  Lv, Hongying ^a,b   Zhao, Xiaoli ^a,b   Xu, Wentao ^a,b   Li, Hui ^a,b   Chen, Jiayue ^a,b   Yang, Xiaoniu ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Controlled solvent vapor annealing; Hole mobility; Polymer solar cells; PSBTBT; Vertical distribution

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BUTYRIC ACID; HOLE CONCENTRATION; HOLE MOBILITY; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMERS; SOLVENTS;

2 ,1 ,3-BENZOTHIADIAZOLE; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PSBTBT; SOLVENT-VAPOR ANNEALING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84877604052     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2013.04.022     Document Type: Article

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