Efficiency enhancement of inverted organic solar cells by introducing PFDTBT quantum dots into PCDTBT:PC71BM active layer

Organic Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2632-2638

  Liu, Chunyu ^a   Guo, Wenbin ^a   Jiang, Huimin ^a   Shen, Liang ^a   Ruan, Shengping ^a   Yan, Dawei ^b  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

Author keywords

Charge transport property; Down conversion; PFDTBT quantum dots

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; EFFICIENCY; NANOCRYSTALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ACTIVE LAYER; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DOWN CONVERSION; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; INVERTED ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT; UTILIZATION RATIOS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84905549376     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2014.07.034     Document Type: Article

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