[6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid 2-((2-(dimethylamino)ethyl) (methyl)amino)-ethyl ester as an acceptor and cathode interfacial material in polymer solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5844-5851

  Lv, Menglan ^a,b,c   Lei, Ming ^d   Zhu, Jin ^b   Hirai, Tadahiko ^a   Chen, Xiwen ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

conjugated polymers; fullerenes; organic electronics; photovoltaic devices; solar cells

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; CATHODES; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; FULLERENES; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTOELECTRONS; SOLAR CELLS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY; MULTI-LAYER DEVICES; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; VERTICAL PHASE SEPARATIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84899563212     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5007047     Document Type: Article

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