Investigation of phase separation in bulk heterojunction solar cells via supramolecular chemistry

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 9129-9136

  Siram, Raja Bhaskar Kanth ^a   Stephen, Meera ^a   Ali, Farman ^a   Patil, Satish ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION (BHJ); BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS; DONOR ACCEPTOR DONORS; KNOEVENAGEL CONDENSATION; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SEPARATION PARAMETERS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM);

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHARGE TRANSFER; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MORPHOLOGY; OLIGOMERS; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; PHASE SEPARATION; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; THIN FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84877699923     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp401523u     Document Type: Article

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