High performance planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells with fullerene derivatives as the electron transport layer

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1153-1159

  Liu, Chang ^a   Wang, Kai ^a   Du, Pengcheng ^a   Meng, Tianyu ^a   Yu, Xinfei ^a   Cheng, Stephen Z D ^a   Gong, Xiong ^a  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical conductivity; Electron transport layer; Fullerene derivatives; High performance; High short circuit current; Perovskite solar cells

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PEROVSKITE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON EXTRACTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; HIGH PERFORMANCE; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; [6 ,6]-PHENYL-C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84921449382     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am506869k     Document Type: Article

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