The potential of graphene as an ITO replacement in organic solar cells: An optical perspective

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Koh, Wee Shing ^a   Gan, Choon How ^b   Phua, Wee Kee ^a   Akimov, Yuriy A ^a   Bai, Ping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; organic semiconductors; photovoltaic cells; Thin film devices

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; ITO ELECTRODES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; SOLAR SPECTRUM; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

GRAPHENE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84882737409     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2247976     Document Type: Article

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