Sulfur-doped molybdenum oxide anode interface layer for organic solar cell application

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2963-2973

  Qin, Pingli ^a,b   Fang, Guojia ^a   Cheng, Fei ^a   Ke, Weijun ^a   Lei, Hongwei ^a   Wang, Haoning ^a   Zhao, Xingzhong ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

anode interface layer; MoO3; organic solar cell; sulfur doping; work function

Indexed keywords

COATED GLASS SUBSTRATES; INTERFACE LAYER; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE ANODES; MOO3; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); SULFUR DOPING; VALENCE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERMI LEVEL; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES; SULFUR; ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; WORK FUNCTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

MOLYBDENUM OXIDE;

EID: 84896818712     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am405571a     Document Type: Article

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