Addition of dihydromethano group to fullerenes to improve the performance of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

Advanced Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 43, 2013, Pages 6266-6269

  Matsuo, Yutaka ^a   Kawai, Junya ^b   Inada, Hiroshi ^a   Nakagawa, Takafumi ^a   Ota, Hitoshi ^b   Otsubo, Saika ^b   Nakamura, Eiichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction; electron transport; fullerene; photovoltaics; solar cells

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY; PHOTOVOLTAICS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; SOLAR CELLS;

FULLERENES;

FULLERENE; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; INDENE; INDENE DERIVATIVE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PHOTOVOLTAICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FULLERENE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SOLAR CELLS;

FULLERENES; INDENES; POLYMERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84888009014     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201302607     Document Type: Article

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