Nano-engineering of hybrid organic heterojunctions with carbon nanotubes to improve photovoltaic performance

Organic Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue , 2015, Pages 35-39

  Nismy, N Aamina ^a   Jayawardena, K D G Imalka ^a   Adikaari, A A Damitha T ^a   Silva, S Ravi P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Hybrid photovoltaics; Photoluminescence quenching; Trap states; Triple heterojunction

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC-INORGANIC MATERIALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUENCHING; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; YARN;

HYBRID PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION; SPACE CHARGE LIMITED CONDUCTION; TRAP STATE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84925795727     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2015.03.018     Document Type: Article

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