PEDOT-Type Materials in Organic Solar Cells

Organic Photovoltaics: Materials, Device Physics, and Manufacturing Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 211-242

  Elschner, Andreas ^a   Kirchmeyer, Stephan ^a  

^a C/o Bayer Chemiepark   (Germany)

Author keywords

Counterion; Electrodes; PEDOT; Polymers; Solvents; Thiophene

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889371049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527623198.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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