Exciton splitting and carrier transport across the amorphous-silicon/ polymer solar cell interface

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 25, 2006, Pages

  Gowrishankar, Vignesh ^a   Scully, Shawn R ^a   McGehee, Michael D ^a   Wang, Qi ^b   Branz, Howard M ^b  

^a Stanford University ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC-INORGANIC DEVICES; PHOTORESPONSE; SOLAR CELL INTERFACE;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CHARGE CARRIERS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITONS; HYDROGENATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHOTOCURRENTS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 33845935214     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2408641     Document Type: Article

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