Triple bulk heterojunctions as means for recovering the microstructure of photoactive layers in organic solar cell devices

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 120, Issue PART A, 2014, Pages 37-47

  Kan, Zhipeng ^a   Colella, Letizia ^a,b   Canesi, Eleonora V ^a   Lerario, Giovanni ^a   Kumar, R Sai Santosh ^a   Bonometti, Valentina ^c   Mussini, Patrizia R ^c   Cavallo, Gabriella ^b   Terraneo, Giancarlo ^a,b   Pattanasattayavong, Pichaya ^d   Anthopoulos, Thomas D ^d   Bertarelli, Chiara ^a,b   Keivanidis, Panagiotis E ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additives; n Type acceptors; Organic photovoltaics; Photon harvesting; Quinoid; Ternary blend

Indexed keywords

CHARGE PHOTOGENERATION; CHARGE TRANSFER PROCESS; N-TYPE ACCEPTORS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUINOID; RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFER; TERNARY BLENDS;

ADDITIVES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY TRANSFER; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84888325458     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.08.007     Document Type: Article

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