Electrospun ZnO nanowire plantations in the electron transport layer for high-efficiency inverted organic solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 5, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 9396-9404

  Elumalai, Naveen Kumar ^a,b   Jin, Tan Mein ^a,b   Chellappan, Vijila ^b   Jose, Rajan ^c   Palaniswamy, Suresh Kumar ^d   Jayaraman, Sundaramurthy ^a   Raut, Hemant Kumar ^a,b   Ramakrishna, Seeram ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PAHANG   (Malaysia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

carrier lifetime; charge transport layers; electrospinning; heirarchical structures; inverted polymer solar cells; renewable energy materials

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; CARRIER LIFETIME; CARRIER TRANSPORT; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTROSPINNING; HETEROJUNCTIONS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOELECTRICITY; SOL-GELS; ZINC OXIDE;

CHARGE COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; INVERTED BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; INVERTED ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; INVERTED POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; PHOTO-ELECTRIC CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; TRANSIENT PHOTOVOLTAGE DECAY; [6 ,6]-PHENYL-C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84885444208     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am4013853     Document Type: Article

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