High-efficiency inverted tandem polymer solar cells with step-Al-doped MoO3 interconnection layer

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 120, Issue PART B, 2014, Pages 744-750

  Liu, Jian ^a,b   Shao, Shuyan ^a   Fang, Gang ^a,b   Wang, Jiantai ^a,b   Meng, Bin ^a   Xie, Zhiyuan ^a   Wang, Lixiang ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Interconnection layer; Metal oxide; Tandem polymer solar cells; Work function

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INTERCONNECTION LAYERS; METAL OXIDES; POLYMER SOLAR CELL (PSCS); POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TANDEM STRUCTURE;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; SOLAR CELLS; WORK FUNCTION;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 84889084696     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.06.034     Document Type: Article

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