Morphology change and improved efficiency in organic photovoltaics via hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene templates

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8824-8835

  Dam, Henk H ^a   Sun, Kuan ^a   Hanssen, Eric ^a   White, Jonathan M ^a   Marszalek, Tomasz ^b   Pisula, Wojciech ^b   Czolk, Jens ^c   Ludwig, Jens ^c   Colsmann, Alexander ^c   Pfaff, Marina ^c   Gerthsen, Dagmar ^c   Wong, Wallace W H ^a   Jones, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

molecule diffusion; morphology control; organic solar cell; surface modification; template

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; SURFACE TREATMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HEXA-PERI-HEXABENZOCORONENES; MOLECULE DIFFUSION; MORPHOLOGY CONTROL; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPLATE;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84902438452     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5015666     Document Type: Article

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