Polymer photovoltaic performance and degradation on spray and spin coated electron transport layer and active layer

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2372-2378

  Ngo, Evan ^a   Venkatesan, Swaminathan ^a   Galipeau, David ^a   Qiao, Qiquan ^a  

^a South Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Active layer; airbrush; degradation; electron transport layer; polymer solar cells; spray coating

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; AIRBRUSH; ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SPRAY COATING;

DEGRADATION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

PLASTIC COATINGS;

EID: 84879910831     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2013.2259242     Document Type: Article

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