Improvement in the power conversion efficiency of bulk heterojunction photovoltaic device via thermal postannealing of subphthalocyanine:Cactive layer

International Journal of Photoenergy

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lee, Chih Chien ^a   Liu, Shun Wei ^b   Cheng, Ching Wen ^a   Su, Wei Cheng ^a   Chou, Chia Chang ^a   Lin, Chun Feng ^b   Chen, Chin Ti ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b MING CHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FILL-FACTOR; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POST ANNEALING TREATMENT; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENTS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENT DENSITY; SUBPHTHALOCYANINES; THERMAL POST-ANNEALING;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 84880139924     PISSN: 1110662X     EISSN: 1687529X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/585196     Document Type: Article

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