The effect of residual palladium catalyst on the performance and stability of PCDTBT:PC70BM organic solar cells

Organic Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue , 2015, Pages 266-273

  Bracher, Christopher ^a   Yi, Hunan ^a   Scarratt, Nicholas W ^a   Masters, Robert ^a   Pearson, Andrew J ^a,b   Rodenburg, Cornelia ^a   Iraqi, Ahmed ^a   Lidzey, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lifetime; Organic photovoltaics; Palladium; PCDTBT; Stability

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EFFICIENCY; LASER BEAMS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR CELLS;

FULLERENE THIN FILMS; LASER BEAM INDUCED CURRENT; LIFETIME; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PCDTBT; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RELATIVE CONCENTRATION;

PALLADIUM;

EID: 84945279787     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2015.10.001     Document Type: Article

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