Role of the donor material and the donor-acceptor mixing ratio in increasing the efficiency of Schottky junction organic solar cells

Organic Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2392-2400

  Sutty, Sibi ^a   Williams, Graeme ^a   Aziz, Hany ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Organic photovoltaics; Organic solar cells; Schottky junction; Small molecule

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CHARGE TRANSFER; DISSOCIATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); EXCITONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MIXING; MOLECULES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOCURRENTS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

AGGREGATE FORMATION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; DONOR CONCENTRATIONS; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; SCHOTTKY JUNCTIONS; SMALL MOLECULES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84879803465     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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