Transparent Conductive Oxide-Free Perovskite Solar Cells with PEDOT:PSS as Transparent Electrode

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 28, 2015, Pages 15314-15320

  Sun, Kuan ^a,b   Li, Pengcheng ^a   Xia, Yijie ^a   Chang, Jingjing ^a   Ouyang, Jianyong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

flexible solar cell; interface engineering; PEDOT:PSS; perovskite solar cell; transparent electrode

Indexed keywords

CELL ENGINEERING; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODES; ETHYLENE; GLASS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR CELLS; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELLS; INTERFACE ENGINEERING; PEDOT:PSS; POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) (PET); POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDE (TCOS); TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDES; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 84937684527     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03171     Document Type: Article

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