Improved efficiency of bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells by doping low-bandgap small molecules

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 6537-6544

  An, Qiaoshi ^a   Zhang, Fujun ^a   Li, Lingliang ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Zhang, Jian ^b   Zhou, Lingyu ^b   Tang, Weihua ^c  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

energy transfer; low bandgap materials; polymer solar cells; ternary bulk heterojunction

Indexed keywords

CARRIER TRANSPORT; ENERGY GAP; ENERGY TRANSFER; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; ENERGY TRANSFER PROCESS; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; LOW BANDGAP; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

EID: 84900843159     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500074s     Document Type: Conference Paper

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