Mo6S9-xIx nanowires as additives for enhanced organic solar cell performance

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 127, Issue , 2014, Pages 63-66

  Majkić, Aleksej ^a,b   Gadermaier, Christoph ^b   Celic, Nevena ^b   Topolovsek, Peter ^b   Bratina, Gvido ^a   Mihailovic, Dragan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Molybdenum sulphur nanowire; MoSI; Nanowire; P3HT:PCBM solar cell; Polymer solar cell

Indexed keywords

FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; FILM MORPHOLOGY; MOSI; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; WEIGHT FRACTIONS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84899859712     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.04.011     Document Type: Article

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