Efficiency improvement of solution-processed dithienopyrrole-based A-D-A oligothiophene bulk-heterojunction solar cells by solvent vapor annealing

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 14, 2014, Pages

  Wessendorf, Cordula D ^a   Schulz, Gisela L ^b   Mishra, Amaresh ^b   Kar, Prasenjit ^b   Ata, Ibrahim ^b   Weidelener, Martin ^b   Urdanpilleta, Marta ^b,c   Hanisch, Jonas ^a   Mena Osteritz, Elena ^b   Lindén, Mika ^b   Ahlswede, Erik ^a   Bäuerle, Peter ^b  

^a ZENTRUM FÜR SONNENENERGIE UND WASSERSTOFF FORSCHUNG BADEN WÜRTTEMBERG ZSW   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunctions; Conjugated oligothiophenes; Organic solar cells; Solution processing; Solvent vapor annealing

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SOLVENTS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; OLIGOTHIOPHENES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; SOLVENT-VAPOR ANNEALING;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84907936334     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201400266     Document Type: Article

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