Processing additive suppresses phase separation in the active layer of organic photovoltaics based on naphthalene diimide

Organic Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3384-3391

  Mao, Zhenghao ^a   Le, Thinh P ^b   Vakhshouri, Kiarash ^b   Fernando, Roshan ^a   Ruan, Fei ^a   Muller, Evan ^a   Gomez, Enrique D ^b   Sauvé, Geneviève ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptor; Additive; Morphology; Non fullerene; Organic solar cell

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; CARRIER MOBILITY; FULLERENES; MORPHOLOGY; NAPHTHALENE; PHASE SEPARATION;

ACCEPTOR; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; ENERGY FILTERED TEM; NAPHTHALENE DIIMIDE; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84908042275     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2014.09.021     Document Type: Article

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