Effect of processing additive 1,8-octanedithiol on the lifetime of PCPDTBT based Organic Photovoltaics

Organic Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2433-2438

  Waters, Huw ^a   Bristow, Noel ^a   Moudam, Omar ^a   Chang, Shu Wei ^b   Su, Chun Jen ^c   Wu, Wei Ru ^c   Jeng, U Ser ^c   Horie, Masaki ^b   Kettle, Jeff ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Co polymer; Degradation; Lifetime studies; Organic Photovoltaics; Organic solar cell

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; DEGRADATION; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; X RAY SCATTERING;

1 ,8-OCTANEDITHIOL; LIFETIME STUDIES; LIGHT SOAKING; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; MORPHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; SMALL AND WIDE ANGLE X RAY SCATTERINGS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84905171484     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2014.06.031     Document Type: Article

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