Enhanced performance of inverted organic photovoltaic cells using CNTs-TiOX nanocomposites as electron injection layer

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 35, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Hong ^a   Xu, Meifeng ^b   Cui, Rongli ^a   Guo, Xihong ^a   Yang, Shangyuan ^a   Liao, Liangsheng ^b   Jia, Quanjie ^a   Chen, Yu ^a   Dong, Jinquan ^a   Sun, Baoyun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY; ELECTRON INJECTION LAYERS; NANOCOMPOSITE DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SIGNIFICANT DISCOVERY; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE (SWNTS);

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84881517657     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/35/355401     Document Type: Article

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