Neutral-Color Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells with All-Graphene Electrodes

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 12026-12034

  Liu, Zhike ^a   You, Peng ^a   Liu, Shenghua ^a   Yan, Feng ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

efficiency; graphene; organic photovoltaic; semitransparent

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

BUILDING-INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS; ENVIRONMENTAL-FRIENDLY; GRAPHENE ELECTRODES; MECHANICAL FLEXIBILITY; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SEMITRANSPARENT; SPECIAL APPLICATIONS;

TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES;

EID: 84952333244     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04858     Document Type: Article

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