Fully solution-processing route toward highly transparent polymer solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 18251-18257

  Guo, Fei ^a   Kubis, Peter ^a   Stubhan, Tobias ^a   Li, Ning ^a   Baran, Derya ^a   Przybilla, Thomas ^a   Spiecker, Erdmann ^a   Forberich, Karen ^a   Brabec, Christoph J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

Author keywords

fully solution processing; ITO free; OPV; semitransparent polymer solar cells

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; DEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; OHMIC CONTACTS; OXIDE MINERALS; POLYMERS; SILVER NANOWIRES; ZINC OXIDE; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY; ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT; ITO FREE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLUTION DEPOSITION; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; TRANSPARENT POLYMER; ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLES;

POLYMER SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84908176747     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am505347p     Document Type: Article

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