Block Copolymer-Tuned Fullerene Electron Transport Layer Enhances the Efficiency of Perovskite Photovoltaics

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 37, 2016, Pages 24603-24611

  Lin, Hsi Kuei ^a   Su, Yu Wei ^a   Chen, Hsiu Cheng ^a   Huang, Yi Jiun ^a   Wei, Kung Hwa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

copolymer; electron transport layer; grazing incidence small angle X ray scattering; perovskite; photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; BUTYRIC ACID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COPOLYMERS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; ETHYLENE; FULLERENES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR CELLS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SCATTERING;

DENDRITIC STRUCTURES; DEVICE EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 84988575975     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b07690     Document Type: Article

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