Effects of alkyl chain length and substituent pattern of fullerene bis-adducts on film structures and photovoltaic properties of bulk heterojunction solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 17313-17322

  Tao, Ran ^a   Umeyama, Tomokazu ^a   Kurotobi, Kei ^b   Imahori, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

alky chain length; bulk heterojunction; fullerene; polymer solar cell; regioisomer

Indexed keywords

CHAIN LENGTH; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ISOMERS; MIXTURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ALKYL CHAIN LENGTHS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REGIOISOMERS; SEPARATION DIFFICULTY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84907893768     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5058794     Document Type: Article

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