Functional p-Type, Polymerized Organic Electrode Interlayer in CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite/Fullerene Planar Heterojunction Hybrid Solar Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 44, 2015, Pages 24973-24981

  Chiang, Tsung Yu ^a   Fan, Gang Lun ^b   Jeng, Jun Yuan ^a   Chen, Kuo Cheng ^a   Chen, Peter ^a   Wen, Ten Chin ^a   Guo, Tzung Fang ^a   Wong, Ken Tsung ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

electrode interlayer; flexible; hybrid solar cell; perovskite; planar heterojunction; thermally curable

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRODES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PEROVSKITE; POLYMERS; STYRENE;

CONDUCTION BAND EDGE; ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT; FLEXIBLE; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PARAMETERS; POLY(3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE):POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; THERMALLY CURABLE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84947068428     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b09012     Document Type: Article

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