The effect of DIO additive on performance improvement of polymer solar cells

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 26, 2014, Pages 3227-3231

  Wang, Jian ^a   Jiao, Chaoqun ^a   Huang, Hui ^a   Zhang, Fujun ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Additive; Polymer solar cells; Power conversion efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904506599     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-014-0436-x     Document Type: Article

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