Influence of polymer compatibility on the open-circuit voltage in ternary blend bulk heterojunction solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 9913-9919

  Khlyabich, Petr P ^a   Rudenko, Andrey E ^a   Street, Robert A ^b   Thompson, Barry C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction; open circuit voltage; organic alloy; solar cell; surface energy; ternary blend

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; CARRIER MOBILITY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SOLAR CELLS; SOLUBILITY; THIOPHENE;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION (BHJ); BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; COMPOSITIONAL DEPENDENCE; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; ORGANIC ALLOYS; PHOTOCURRENT SPECTRAL RESPONSE; TERNARY BLENDS;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 84904113152     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am502122a     Document Type: Article

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