Control of interface order by inverse quasi-epitaxial growth of squaraine/fullerene thin film photovoltaics

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 9268-9275

  Zimmerman, Jeramy D ^a   Lassiter, Brian E ^a   Xiao, Xin ^a   Sun, Kai ^a   Dolocan, Andrei ^b   Gearba, Raluca ^c   Vanden Bout, David A ^c   Stevenson, Keith J ^c   Wickramasinghe, Piyumie ^d   Thompson, Mark E ^d   Forrest, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

donor acceptor interface; epitaxy; fullerene; organic photovoltaics; small molecule; solar cell; squaraine

Indexed keywords

DONOR-ACCEPTOR HETEROJUNCTIONS; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERFACES; EPITAXIAL RELATIONSHIPS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SMALL MOLECULES; SQUARAINES;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FULLERENES; GROWTH (MATERIALS); HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULES; MORPHOLOGY; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84886999720     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn403897d     Document Type: Article

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