Synergistic effects of interfacial modifiers enhance current and voltage in hybrid solar cells

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Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Weickert, Jonas ^a   Zimmermann, Eugen ^a   Reindl, Julian B ^a   Pfadler, Thomas ^a   Dorman, James A ^a   Petrozza, Annamaria ^b   Schmidt Mende, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1063/1.4824040     Document Type: Article

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