Enhanced performance of polymer solar cells using PEDOT:PSS doped with Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles aligned by an external magnetostatic field as an anode buffer layer

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 13201-13208

  Wang, Kai ^a   Yi, Chao ^a   Hu, Xiaowen ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Sun, Yan ^a   Hou, Jianhui ^b   Li, Yongfang ^b   Zheng, Jie ^a   Chuang, Steven ^a   Karim, Alamgir ^a   Gong, Xiong ^a  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

efficiency; external magnetostatic field; magnetic nanoparticles; polymer solar cells; stability

Indexed keywords

BUFFER LAYERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODES; MAGNETOSTATICS; NANOPARTICLES; SOLAR CELLS; STABILITY;

ANODE BUFFER LAYERS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; MAGNETIC NANO-PARTICLES; MAGNETOSTATIC FIELD; POLY(3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE):POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); POLYMER SOLAR CELL (PSCS); POLYMER SOLAR CELLS;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 84906239787     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am503041g     Document Type: Article

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