Increased short circuit current in an azafullerene-based organic solar cell

Chemical Communications

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1128-1130

  Cambarau, Werther ^a   Fritze, Urs F ^b   Viterisi, Aurélien ^a   Palomares, Emilio ^a   Von Delius, Max ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH OF CATALONIA ICIQ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CELLS; ELECTRON; LIGHT; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENT; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; SYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY;

AZA COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; FULLERENES; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84919667167     PISSN: 13597345     EISSN: 1364548X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc08094g     Document Type: Article

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