Systematic variation of the stabilizer to reduce the annealing temperature of sol-gel derived titanium oxide in inverted organic solar cells

Organic Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1407-1412

  Sessler M ^a,b   Saeed, A ^a   Kohlstadt M ^a,b   Wurfel U ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inverted; Organic solar cell; Solution processed; Titanium oxide; Window layer

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BOILING POINT; BUTYRIC ACID; SOL-GELS; SOLAR CELLS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TITANIUM OXIDES;

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; INVERTED; INVERTED ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; WINDOW LAYER; [6 ,6]-PHENYL-C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84899639182     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2014.04.012     Document Type: Article

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