Recent progress of bulk heterojunction solar cells based on small-molecular donors

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 2677-2685

  Huang, QiuLiu ^a   Li, HongXiang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

organic electronics; organic solar cells; power conversion efficiency; small molecular donors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881609458     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-5930-z     Document Type: Review

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