Modeling optical effects and thickness dependent current in polymer bulk-heterojunction solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Sievers, Douglas W ^a   Shrotriya, Vishal ^a   Yang, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OSCILLATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS;

ACTIVE LAYER THICKNESS; DEPENDENT CURRENT; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; OPTICAL TRANSFER MATRIX THEORY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 33845801692     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2388854     Document Type: Article

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