Physics of organic bulk heterojunction devices for photovoltaic applications

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Waldauf, Christoph ^a   Scharber, Marcus C ^a   Schilinsky, Pavel ^a   Hauch, Jens A ^a   Brabec, Christoph J ^a  

^a Konarka Austria Forschungs und Entwicklungs GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

FILL FACTOR; HETEROJUNCTION LAYERS; PN -JUNCTION-LIKE BEHAVIOR;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 33744809317     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2198930     Document Type: Article

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