Understanding the effect of donor layer thickness and a MoO3 hole transport layer on the open-circuit voltage in squaraine/C60 bilayer solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 39, 2013, Pages 19866-19874

  Ryan, James W ^a,d   Kirchartz, Thomas ^b   Viterisi, Aurélien ^a   Nelson, Jenny ^b   Palomares, Emilio ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH OF CATALONIA ICIQ   (Spain)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK-HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; DEVICE OPERATIONS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; MOLECULAR DESIGN; SMALL-MOLECULE ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; STRONG DEPENDENCES;

ANODES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84885152306     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp406472t     Document Type: Article

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