Efficient Ternary Blended Hybrid Organic Solar Cells: Fullerene Derivative Replacement with Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
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a Solar Application Lab, Department of Physics, G. C. University Lahore, 54000 Pakistan b Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Delaware, 19716,USA c Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Delaware, 19716USA d Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 29 Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China
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تاریخ انتشار 2014