Organic materials for photovoltaic applications: Review and mechanism

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 190, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-26

  Kaur, Navpreet ^a   Singh, Mandeep ^b   Pathak, Dinesh ^c   Wagner, Tomas ^c   Nunzi, J M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARDUBICE   (Czech Republic)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Energy; Organic materials; Photovoltaic applications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894413379     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2014.01.022     Document Type: Review

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