Crystallinity effects in sequentially processed and blend-cast bulk-heterojunction polymer/fullerene photovoltaics

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 32, 2014, Pages 18424-18435

  Zhang, Guangye ^a   Huber, Rachel C ^a   Ferreira, Amy S ^a   Boyd, Shane D ^b   Luscombe, Christine K ^b   Tolbert, Sarah H ^a,c   Schwartz, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; BUTYRIC ACID; EFFICIENCY; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMER FILMS; SOLAR CELLS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION (BHJ); NANOSCALE MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SEQUENTIAL PROCESSING; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; WIDE ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING;

BORON CARBIDE;

EID: 84906245001     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5054315     Document Type: Article

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