Photovoltaic analysis of the effects of PEDOT:PSS-additives hole selective contacts on the efficiency and lifetime performance of inverted organic solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 132, Issue , 2015, Pages 507-514

  Savva, Achilleas ^a   Georgiou, Efthymios ^a   Papazoglou, Giannis ^a   Chrusou, Alexandra Z ^a   Kapnisis, Konstantinos ^a   Choulis, Stelios A ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Additives; Device performance; Hole selective contact; Inverted organic photovoltaics; PEDOT:PSS; Processing

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; MIXTURES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PROCESSING; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

DEVICE PERFORMANCE; INVERTED ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS (OPVS); INVERTED ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; LIFETIME PERFORMANCE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PEDOT:PSS; POLY(3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE):POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); SELECTIVE CONTACTS;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 84908330800     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.10.004     Document Type: Article

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