High-performance NiO/Ag/NiO transparent electrodes for flexible organic photovoltaic cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 16403-16408

  Xue, Zhichao ^a,b   Liu, Xingyuan ^a   Zhang, Nan ^a   Chen, Hong ^c   Zheng, Xuanming ^c   Wang, Haiyu ^d   Guo, Xiaoyang ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flexible electronics; NiO; Organic photovoltaic cells; Transparent electrode

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; ITO GLASS; MORPHOLOGY; NICKEL OXIDE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLASTIC BOTTLES; SHEET RESISTANCE; SILVER; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; TIN OXIDES;

ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOELECTRIC PROPERTY; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES (PET); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; ROOM TEMPERATURE DEPOSITION;

TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES;

EID: 84912035339     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504806k     Document Type: Article

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