Moderately reduced graphene oxide/PEDOT:PSS as hole transport layer to fabricate efficient perovskite hybrid solar cells

Organic Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue , 2016, Pages 288-295

  Huang, Xu ^a   Guo, Heng ^a   Yang, Jian ^a   Wang, Kai ^b   Niu, Xiaobin ^a   Liu, Xiaobo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

Hole transport layer; Perovskite solar cells; Reduced graphene oxide

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; FABRICATION; GRAPHENE; HOLE MOBILITY; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR CELLS; STYRENE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; HYDROPHILIC PROPERTIES; POLY(STYRENE SULFONATE); POLYETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO);

PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84992690558     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2016.10.013     Document Type: Article

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