Enhanced performance of polymer solar cells by dipole-assisted hole extraction

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 130, Issue , 2014, Pages 15-19

  Wang, Jian ^a   Zhang, Fujun ^a   Li, Lingliang ^a   An, Qiaoshi ^a   Zhang, Jian ^b   Tang, Weihua ^c   Teng, Feng ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Buffer layer; Hole extraction; Hole only devices; Polymer solar cells

Indexed keywords

BUFFER LAYERS; ELECTRODES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS;

ACTIVE LAYER; ANODE BUFFER LAYERS; HOLE EXTRACTIONS; HOLE-ONLY DEVICE; POLYMER SOLAR CELL (PSCS); POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

EXTRACTION; BUFFER LAYERS;

EID: 84904198360     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.06.030     Document Type: Article

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