Highly efficient and high transmittance semitransparent polymer solar cells with one-dimensional photonic crystals as distributed Bragg reflectors

Organic Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 470-477

  Yu, Wenjuan ^a   Shen, Liang ^a   Long, Yongbing ^b   Shen, Ping ^a   Guo, Wenbin ^a   Chen, Weiyou ^a   Ruan, Shengping ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Wuyi University   (China)

Author keywords

Distributed Bragg reflectors; One dimensional photonic crystals; Semitransparent polymer solar cells

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLYMERS; REFLECTION; SOLAR CELLS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

ACTIVE LAYER; HIGH TRANSMITTANCE; MAXIMUM POWER; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; POLYMER SOLAR CELL (PSCS); WAVELENGTH RANGES;

POLYMER SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84890930671     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2013.11.043     Document Type: Article

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