Elucidating the impact of molecular packing and device architecture on the performance of nanostructured perylene diimide solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 8687-8698

  Aluicio Sarduy, Eduardo ^a   Singh, Ranbir ^a   Kan, Zhipeng ^a   Ye, Tengling ^a,g   Baidak, Aliaksandr ^a,h   Calloni, Alberto ^b   Berti, Giulia ^b   Duò, Lamberto ^b   Iosifidis, Agathaggelos ^e   Beaupré, Serge ^c   Leclerc, Mario ^c   Butt, Hans Jürgen ^d   Floudas, George ^e   Keivanidis, Panagiotis E ^f  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^f CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^g HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

charge extraction; non fullerene acceptors; organic photovoltaics; perylene diimide; vertical phase separation

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRODES; EXTRACTION; FULLERENES; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; POLYMERS; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLAR CELLS; STABILIZATION; X RAY SCATTERING;

CHARGE EXTRACTION; NON-FULLERENE ACCEPTORS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PERYLENEDIIMIDES; VERTICAL PHASE SEPARATIONS;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84929485357     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00827     Document Type: Article

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