Investigation of photodegradation in polymer solar cells blended with different fullerenes derivatives

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 123, Issue , 2014, Pages 150-158

  Endale, Tsegaye ^a   Sovernigo, Enrico ^b   Radivo, Andrea ^b,c   Dal Zilio, Simone ^b   Pozzato, Alessandro ^b,d   Yohannes, Teketel ^a   Vaccari, Lisa ^e   Tormen, Massimo ^b,d  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b IOM CNR LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d ThunderNIL Srl   (Italy)

^e SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

FTIR; Fullerene electron affinity; ICBA; P3HT:fullerene bulk heterojunction; PCBM; Photodegradation

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; CHEMICAL STABILITY; ELECTRON AFFINITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLYMERS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CURRENT VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICAL DEGRADATION; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; FTIR; ICBA; PCBM; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE;

POLYMER SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84893273607     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.01.001     Document Type: Article

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