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Title: Approaching 16% Efficiency in All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells Based on Ternary Strategy with a Highly Crystalline Acceptor

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USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1735673
Resource Type:
Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Joule
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Joule Journal Volume: 4 Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2542-4351
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Nian, Li, Kan, Yuanyuan, Gao, Ke, Zhang, Ming, Li, Na, Zhou, Guanqing, Jo, Sae Byeok, Shi, Xueliang, Lin, Francis, Rong, Qikun, Liu, Feng, Zhou, Guofu, and Jen, Alex K. -Y. Approaching 16% Efficiency in All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells Based on Ternary Strategy with a Highly Crystalline Acceptor. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1016/j.joule.2020.08.011.
Nian, Li, Kan, Yuanyuan, Gao, Ke, Zhang, Ming, Li, Na, Zhou, Guanqing, Jo, Sae Byeok, Shi, Xueliang, Lin, Francis, Rong, Qikun, Liu, Feng, Zhou, Guofu, & Jen, Alex K. -Y. Approaching 16% Efficiency in All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells Based on Ternary Strategy with a Highly Crystalline Acceptor. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2020.08.011
Nian, Li, Kan, Yuanyuan, Gao, Ke, Zhang, Ming, Li, Na, Zhou, Guanqing, Jo, Sae Byeok, Shi, Xueliang, Lin, Francis, Rong, Qikun, Liu, Feng, Zhou, Guofu, and Jen, Alex K. -Y. Thu . "Approaching 16% Efficiency in All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells Based on Ternary Strategy with a Highly Crystalline Acceptor". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2020.08.011.
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author = {Nian, Li and Kan, Yuanyuan and Gao, Ke and Zhang, Ming and Li, Na and Zhou, Guanqing and Jo, Sae Byeok and Shi, Xueliang and Lin, Francis and Rong, Qikun and Liu, Feng and Zhou, Guofu and Jen, Alex K. -Y.},
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year = {Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
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