A mechanistic understanding of processing additive-induced efficiency enhancement in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

Advanced Materials

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 300-305

  Schmidt, Kristin ^a   Tassone, Christopher J ^a   Niskala, Jeremy R ^b,c   Yiu, Alan T ^b,c   Lee, Olivia P ^b,c   Weiss, Thomas M ^a   Wang, Cheng ^c   Fréchet, Jean M J ^b,c,d   Beaujuge, Pierre M ^d   Toney, Michael F ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

additives; microstructure; organic photovoltaics; SAXS; solar cells

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; NETWORK STRUCTURES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLYMER CONFORMATION; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SAXS;

ADDITIVES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE;

SOLAR CELLS;

(6,6) PHENYL C61 BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTER; (6,6)-PHENYL C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTER; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PHENYL DI N PENTYLPHOSPHINATE; PHENYL DI-N-PENTYLPHOSPHINATE; POLY(3,4 ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE) POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); POLY(3,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE)-POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ADDITIVES; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MICROSTRUCTURE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; SAXS; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ADDITIVES; MICROSTRUCTURE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; SAXS; SOLAR CELLS;

FULLERENES; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; POLYSTYRENES; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SOLAR ENERGY; THIOPHENES; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84892593438     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201303622     Document Type: Article

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