Improved performance of ZnO/polymer hybrid photovoltaic devices by combining metal oxide doping and interfacial modification

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 33, 2014, Pages 18945-18950

  Pachoumi, Olympia ^a   Bakulin, Artem A ^b   Sadhanala, Aditya ^a   Sirringhaus, Henning ^a   Friend, Richard H ^a   Vaynzof, Yana ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; SURFACE DEFECTS;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC; HYBRID PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; INTERFACIAL MODIFICATION; INTERFACIAL TRAPS; METAL OXIDE DOPANT; MOLECULAR MODIFICATION; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE SEPARATION;

SEPARATION;

EID: 84906539625     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp506266f     Document Type: Article

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