Highly efficient thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione-based solar cells processed from non-chlorinated solvent

Organic Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 543-548

  Aïch, Badrou Réda ^a,b   Beaupré, Serge ^b   Leclerc, Mario ^b   Tao, Ye ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Additives; Bulk heterojunction processing; Non chlorinated solvent; Polymer solar cells; Thieno 3,4 c pyrrole 4,6 dione

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; CARBON INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NAPHTHALENE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMERS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; NON-CHLORINATED SOLVENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLYMERIC SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; THIENO[3,4-C]PYRROLE-4,6-DIONE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84891598850     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2013.12.012     Document Type: Article

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