ITO-free organic solar cells using highly conductive phenol-treated PEDOT:PSS anodes

Organic Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue , 2015, Pages 188-194

  Saghaei, Jaber ^a   Fallahzadeh, Ali ^a   Saghaei, Tayebeh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

ITO free organic solar cell; PEDOT:PSS; Phenol post treatment; Thin film

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRODES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHENOLS; STYRENE; THIN FILMS;

CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; ITO FREE; MODIFIED PEDOT:PSS; PEDOT:PSS; POLY(STYRENE SULFONATE); POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; POST TREATMENT;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84930939083     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2015.06.002     Document Type: Article

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