Small-molecule solar cells with efficiency over 9%

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-41

  Zhang, Qian ^a   Kan, Bin ^b   Liu, Feng ^c   Long, Guankui ^c   Wan, Xiangjian ^a   Chen, Xiaoqing ^a   Zuo, Yi ^a   Ni, Wang ^a   Zhang, Huijing ^a   Li, Miaomiao ^d   Hu, Zhicheng ^d   Huang, Fei ^d   Cao, Yong ^d   Liang, Ziqi ^c   Zhang, Mingtao ^a   Russell, Thomas P ^b   Chen, Yongsheng ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MOLECULES; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; EXCITON DIFFUSION LENGTH; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INTERPENETRATING DONOR; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLUTION-PROCESSED;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84923856428     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.269     Document Type: Article

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