Ternary blend hybrid solar cells incorporating wide and narrow bandgap polymers

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 17551-17555

  Kim, Hyung Do ^a   Ohkita, Hideo ^a,b   Benten, Hiroaki ^a   Ito, Shinzaburo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

energy transfer; hole transfer; low bandgap polymer; narrow bandgap polymer; precursor; ternary hybrid solar cells; ZnO

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; ENERGY TRANSFER; HOLE MOBILITY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INFRARED DEVICES; OXIDE MINERALS; POLYMERS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; ZINC OXIDE;

HOLE TRANSFER; LOW BANDGAP POLYMERS; NARROW BANDGAP POLYMERS; PRECURSOR; TERNARY HYBRID;

POLYMER SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84908200502     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am503311f     Document Type: Article

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