Crystallization-induced phase separation in solution-processed small molecule bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 3543-3550

  Sharenko, Alexander ^a,b   Kuik, Martijn ^b   Toney, Michael F ^c   Nguyen, Thuc Quyen ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

crystallization; organic solar cells; phase separation; small molecules; thermal annealing

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CRYSTALLITES; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULES; PHASE SEPARATION; SCATTERING; X RAY SCATTERING;

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION (BHJ); BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SMALL MOLECULES; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84902379405     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201304100     Document Type: Article

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