Ultrathin polyaniline-based buffer layer for highly efficient polymer solar cells with wide applicability

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhao, Wenchao ^a,b   Ye, Long ^a   Zhang, Shaoqing ^a   Fan, Bin ^c   Sun, Mingliang ^b   Hou, Jianhui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c Xiamen Weihua solar Co Ltd   (China)

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EID: 84947074693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06570     Document Type: Article

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