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  • Investigation of Photovoltaic Properties of Polymer Solar Cells with Fluorene-based Polyelectrolytes as the Interlayer

  • Junho Lee# , Sabrina Aufar Salma# , Mijin Jeong, and Joo Hyun Kim†

  • Department of Polymer Engineering, Pukyong National University, 45 Yongso-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 48513, Korea

  • Fluorene을 기본골격으로 한 공액형 고분자 전해질을 Interlayer로 적용한 고분자태양전지의 광전효과

  • 이준호# · 사브리나아우파살마# · 정미진 · 김주현†

  • 부경대학교 고분자공학과

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This Article

  • 2021; 45(1): 134-142

    Published online Jan 25, 2021

  • 10.7317/pk.2021.45.1.134
  • Received on Sep 10, 2020
  • Revised on Sep 28, 2020
  • Accepted on Oct 9, 2020

Correspondence to

  • Joo Hyun Kim

  • Department of Polymer Engineering, Pukyong National University, 45 Yongso-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 48513, Korea

  • E-mail: jkim@pknu.ac.kr