Recent approaches to controlling the nanoscale morphology of polymer-based bulk-heterojunction solar cells

Energies

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5847-5868

  Hammed, Wasiu Adebayo ^a   Yahya, Rosiyah ^a   Bola, Abdulra'uf Lukman ^a   Mahmud, Habibun Nabi Muhammad Ekramul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Active layer; Bulk heterojunction; Photovoltaic; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ACTIVE LAYER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION (BHJ); BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; PERFORMANCE EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POLYMER PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84887512867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en6115847     Document Type: Review

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