Film morphology of high efficiency solution-processed small-molecule solar cells

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 40, 2013, Pages 5019-5026

  Love, John A ^a   Proctor, Christopher M ^a   Liu, Jianhua ^a   Takacs, Christopher J ^a   Sharenko, Alexander ^a   Van Der Poll, Thomas S ^a   Heeger, Alan J ^a   Bazan, Guillermo C ^a   Nguyen, Thuc Quyen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction solar cells; film morphology; small molecules

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; EFFICIENCY; HEAT TREATMENT; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULES; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLAR CELLS; TRANSMISSIONS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION (BHJ); BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CROSS-SECTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; FILM MORPHOLOGY; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SINGLE CRYSTAL X-RAY DIFFRACTION; SMALL MOLECULES;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84886422440     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201300099     Document Type: Article

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