Novel Advances in Microsystems Technologies and Their Applications

2	Nanoscale Phase Separation and Device Engineering in Polymer Solar Cells Swaminathan Venkatesan and Qiquan Qiao

CONTENTS

2.1      Introduction

2.2      Semiconducting Polymers

2.3      Working Principle of Polymer Solar Cells

2.4      Control of Nanoscale Phase Separation in Polymer Solar Cells

2.4.1      Effect of Solvent and Thermal Annealing

2.4.2      Effect of Solvents and Additives

2.5      Device Structural Engineering for Efficiency and Lifetime Enhancement

2.5.1      Inverted Solar Cells Structure

2.5.2      Interlayers

2.5.3      Tandem Solar Cell Structure

2.6      Conclusions

References

2.1    INTRODUCTION

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