Conductive water/alcohol-soluble neutral fullerene derivative as an interfacial layer for inverted polymer solar cells with high efficiency

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 14189-14195

  Yi, Chao ^a   Yue, Kan ^a   Zhang, Wen Bin ^a   Lu, Xiaocun ^a   Hou, Jianhui ^b   Li, Yongfang ^b   Huang, Lin ^c   Newkome, George R ^a   Cheng, Stephen Z D ^a   Gong, Xiong ^a  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Bruker Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

electron extraction layer; inverted polymer solar cells; neutral; power conversion efficiency; surface electronic conductivity

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION; FULLERENES; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OXIDE MINERALS; POLYMERS; ZINC OXIDE;

ELECTRON EXTRACTION; INVERTED POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; NEUTRAL; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SURFACE ELECTRONIC CONDUCTIVITY;

POLYMER SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84906819073     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am503510z     Document Type: Article

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