Nanoimprinted comb structures in a low bandgap polymer: Thermal processing and their application in hybrid solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 7633-7642

  Dunst, Sebastian ^a,b   Rath, Thomas ^a   Radivo, Andrea ^c   Sovernigo, Enrico ^c,d   Tormen, Massimo ^c,d   Amenitsch, Heinz ^e   Marmiroli, Benedetta ^e   Sartori, Barbara ^e   Reichmann, Angelika ^f   Knall, Astrid Caroline ^a   Trimmel, Gregor ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b POLYMER COMPETENCE CENTER LEOBEN GMBH   (Austria)

^c LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^d ThunderNIL Srl   (Italy)

^e GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^f GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

copper indium sulfide; GISAXS; metal xanthate; nanoimprint lithography; organic inorganic hybrid photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

COPPER; DECOMPOSITION; INDIUM SULFIDE; MIXTURES; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; VINYL RESINS;

COPPER INDIUM SULFIDES; GI-SAXS; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; LOW BANDGAP POLYMERS; NANOSTRUCTURED POLYMERS; NANOSTRUCTURED SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84901647948     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5009425     Document Type: Article

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