Plastic solar cells with engineered interfaces

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8622, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Guo, Xugang ^a,b   Marks, Tobin J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

graphene oxide; interfacial layer; inverted solar cell; nickel oxide; organic semiconductor; polymer solar cell; self assembled organic layer; zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE OXIDES; INTERFACIAL LAYER; INVERTED SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC LAYERS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULES; NICKEL OXIDE; OHMIC CONTACTS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; POLYMERS; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84878131928     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2013491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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