Do the defects make it work? Defect engineering in pi-conjugated polymers and their solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wang, Dong ^a   Reese, Matthew ^a   Kopidakis, Nikos ^a   Gregg, Brian A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BUILT-IN ELECTRIC FIELDS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CHARGED DEFECT DENSITY; DEFECT ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); SOLID-STATE ORGANIC;

CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; DEFECT DENSITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SODIUM SULFATE; SOLAR CELLS;

DEFECTS;

EID: 84879706564     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2008.4922905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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