Investigation into the effect of post-annealing on inverted polymer solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 120, Issue PART A, 2014, Pages 131-135

  Kang, Rira ^a   Oh, Seung Hwan ^b   Na, Seok In ^c   Kim, Tae Soo ^a   Kim, Dong Yu ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^c Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Conjugated polyelectrolyte; Inverted polymer solar cells; Post annealing; Thermal annealing treatment; Water soluble polyfluorene

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED POLYELECTROLYTES; INVERTED POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYFLUORENES; POST ANNEALING; THERMAL ANNEALING TREATMENT;

ANNEALING; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 84888330142     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.08.026     Document Type: Article

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