Efficient polymer solar cells based on poly(3-hexylthiophene) and indene-C60 bisadduct fabricated with non-halogenated solvents

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8190-8198

  Guo, Xia ^a,b   Zhang, Maojie ^a   Cui, Chaohua ^a   Hou, Jianhui ^a   Li, Yongfang ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

N methyl pyrrolidone additive; non halogenated solvents; polymer solar cells; toluene solvent

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARRIER MOBILITY; FABRICATION; HALOGENATION; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLVENTS; TOLUENE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; XYLENE;

BIS-ADDUCTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; METHYL PYRROLIDONE; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLYMER SOLAR CELL (PSCS); POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TOLUENE SOLVENT;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

EID: 84902532098     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500836u     Document Type: Article

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