A bifunctional copolymer additive to utilize photoenergy transfer and to improve hole mobility for organic ternary bulk-heterojunction solar cell

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 12119-12125

  Chi, Cheng Yu ^a   Chen, Ming Chung ^a   Liaw, Der Jang ^a   Wu, Han Yu ^a   Huang, Ying Chi ^a   Tai, Yian ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

F rster resonance energy transfer; hole mobility; organic solar cell; ternary bulk heterojunction

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; HOLE MOBILITY; SOLAR CELLS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; [6 ,6]-PHENYL-C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84906268179     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501209t     Document Type: Article

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