Molecular ordering of spin-coated and electrosprayed P3HT:PCBM thin films and their applications to photovoltaic cell

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 612, Issue , 2016, Pages 373-380

  Fukuda, Takeshi ^a   Toda, Asuki ^a   Takahira, Kazuya ^a   Suzuki, Katsumi ^a   Liao, Yingjie ^b   Hirahara, Miru ^a   Saito, Masahiko ^c   Osaka, Itaru ^c  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Crystallinity; Electrospray deposition method; Grazing incidence X ray diffraction; Organic photovoltaic cell; Raman spectroscopy; Solvent evaporation time

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CCD CAMERAS; DEPOSITION; EFFICIENCY; EVAPORATION; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLINITIES; ELECTROSPRAY DEPOSITION; GRAZING INCIDENCE X-RAY DIFFRACTION; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLVENT EVAPORATION;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 84975706373     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2016.06.019     Document Type: Article

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