High-Performance Polymer Tandem Solar Cells Employing a New n-Type Conjugated Polymer as an Interconnecting Layer

Advanced Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 4817-4823

  Zhang, Kai ^a   Gao, Ke ^a   Xia, Ruoxi ^a   Wu, Zhihong ^a   Sun, Chen ^a   Cao, Jiamin ^b   Qian, Liu ^b   Li, Weiqi ^c   Liu, Shiyuan ^c,d   Huang, Fei ^a   Peng, Xiaobin ^a   Ding, Liming ^b   Yip, Hin Lap ^a   Cao, Yong ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Wuhan Eoptics Technology Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

flexible devices; interconnecting layers; optical modeling; organic tandem solar cells; water alcohol soluble polymers

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; FLEXIBLE DEVICE; HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMER; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; INTER-CONNECTING LAYERS; OPTICAL MODELING; SINGLE-JUNCTION CELLS; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 84975068518     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201506270     Document Type: Article

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