The effect of PCBM dimerization on the performance of bulk heterojunction solar cells

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Distler, Andreas ^a   Sauermann, Tobias ^a   Egelhaaf, Hans Joachim ^a   Rodman, Sheila ^b   Waller, Dave ^b   Cheon, Kap Soo ^b   Lee, Mike ^b   Guldi, Dirk M ^c  

^a BELECTRIC OPV GmbH   (Germany)

^b KONARKA TECHNOLOGIES INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

dimerization; fullerenes; organic photovoltaics; photoinduced degradation; stability

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; DEGRADATION MECHANISM; ELECTRICAL DEVICES; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOINDUCED DEGRADATION; UV-VIS ABSORPTIONS;

BUTYRIC ACID; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEGRADATION; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PHOTODEGRADATION; SOLAR CELLS;

DIMERIZATION;

EID: 84891863829     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201300693     Document Type: Article

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