Improved performances in polymer BHJ solar cells through frontier orbital tuning of small molecule additives in ternary blends

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 9920-9924

  Kokil, Akshay ^a   Poe, Ambata M ^b   Bae, Youngju ^b   Della Pelle, Andrea M ^b   Homnick, Paul J ^b   Lahti, Paul M ^b   Kumar, Jayant ^a   Thayumanavan, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction solar cells; donor Acceptor dyes; planar multilayer solar cells; polymer solar cells

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MULTILAYERS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; POLYMERS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CASCADE ARCHITECTURE; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; DONOR-ACCEPTOR DYES; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84904101796     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5021759     Document Type: Article

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