Photochemical Stability of Materials for OPV

Stability and Degradation of Organic and Polymer Solar Cells

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 71-108

  Manceau, Matthieu ^a   Rivaton, Agnès ^b   Gardette, Jean Luc ^b  

^a CEA INES/RDI   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Acceptor, aging and blend degradation; Aging, and oxidation products in degradation; Degradation monitoring; New acceptor materials, and PSC efficiency; Novel donor polymers; Photochemical stability, and OPV; PSCs field, SF4 and NH3 on photo oxidized PPV; PSCs, improving device performance; PSCs, layer degradation, stability; State of the Art, MDMO PPV and P3HT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886568806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119942436.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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