Finding the lost open-circuit voltage in polymer solar cells by UV-ozone treatment of the nickel acetate anode buffer layer

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 9458-9465

  Wang, Fuzhi ^a   Sun, Gang ^a   Li, Cong ^a   Liu, Jiyan ^c   Hu, Siqian ^c   Zheng, Hua ^d   Tan, Zhan'ao ^a   Li, Yongfang ^b  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^c JIANGHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

anode buffer layer; nickel acetate; polymer solar cells; UV ozone treatment

Indexed keywords

BUFFER LAYERS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES; NICKEL; OHMIC CONTACTS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; ORGANOMETALLICS; OZONE; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ANODE BUFFER LAYERS; NICKEL ACETATE; PARALLEL RESISTANCE; POLYMER SOLAR CELL (PSCS); POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; UV-OZONE TREATMENT;

OZONE LAYER;

EID: 84903524495     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5017705     Document Type: Article

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