Improving the efficiency of organic solar cells upon addition of polyvinylpyridine

Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 8189-8196

  Rodrigues, Rita ^a   Meira, Rui ^a   Ferreira, Quirina ^a   Charas, Ana ^a   Morgado, Jorge ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Organic photovoltaics; Polymer blends and alloys; Polyvinylpyridine

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER BLENDS;

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLY(4-VINYLPYRIDINE); POLYFLUORENE DERIVATIVE; POLYMER BLENDS AND ALLOYS; POLYMER-BASED SOLAR CELLS; POLYVINYLPYRIDINE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84921301072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma7128189     Document Type: Article

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