Enhanced performance for polymer/fullerene solar cells by using bromobenzene/1,8-diiodooctane co-solvent

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 21, 2014, Pages

  Huang, Xiaodong ^a   Peng, Jun ^a   Lu, Kunyuan ^a   Liu, Zeke ^a   Wu, Zhongwei ^a   Yuan, Jianyu ^a   Lu, Jialing ^a   Wang, Hai Qiao ^a   Ma, Wanli ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLAR CELLS; SOLVENTS;

ACTIVE MATERIAL; ALTERNATIVE SOLVENTS; BETTER PERFORMANCE; BROMOBENZENE; CHARGE-CARRIER MOBILITY; DIODE CHARACTERISTICS; GOOD COMPATIBILITY; METHYL ESTERS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84901760547     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4880207     Document Type: Article

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