Decoupling optical and electronic optimization of organic solar cells using high-performance temperature-stable TiO2/Ag/TiO2 electrodes

APL Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Kim, Kwang Dae ^a   Pfadler, Thomas ^a   Zimmermann, Eugen ^a   Feng, Yuyi ^a   Dorman, James A ^b   Weickert, Jonas ^a   Schmidt Mende, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84945303297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2166532X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4933414     Document Type: Article

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