Remove the Residual Additives toward Enhanced Efficiency with Higher Reproducibility in Polymer Solar Cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 14920-14928

  Ye, Long ^a,c   Jing, Yan ^a   Guo, Xia ^a,c   Sun, Hao ^b   Zhang, Shaoqing ^a   Zhang, Maojie ^a   Huo, Lijun ^a   Hou, Jianhui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b Bruker Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; INDUSTRIAL COMMUNITIES; KELVIN PROBE FORCE MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGICAL STABILITY; MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; PROCESSING CONDITION;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BOILING POINT; DRYING; EFFICIENCY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADDITIVES;

EID: 84880809279     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp404395q     Document Type: Article

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