Influence of hole extraction efficiency on the performance and stability of organic solar Cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 116, Issue , 2013, Pages 176-181

  Ecker, Bernhard ^a,b   Posdorfer, Jörg ^c   Von Hauff, Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^c Enthone GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degradation; Equivalent circuit model; Impedance spectroscopy; Interlayer; PANI; Stability

Indexed keywords

DEVICE PERFORMANCE; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; INTERLAYER; PANI; POLYSTYRENE SULFONATE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DEGRADATION; POLYANILINE; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPY; STABILITY;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 84878356743     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.04.019     Document Type: Article

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