Charge carrier photogeneration and transport properties of a novel low-bandgap conjugated polymer for organic photovoltaics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6334, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Soci, Cesare ^a   Hwang, In Wook ^a   Yang, Cuiying ^a   Moses, Daniel ^a   Zhu, Zhengguo ^b   Waller, David ^b   Gaudiana, Russel ^b   Brabec, Christoph J ^c   Heeger, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KONARKA TECHNOLOGIES INC   (United States)

^c Konarka Austria Forschungs und Entwicklungs GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Low bandgap conjugated polymers; Organic photovoltaics; Photoconductivity; Photoinduced absorption

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

BANDGAP; OPTICAL ENERGY GAP; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOINDUCED ABSORPTION; PHOTON ABSORPTION;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 33846264087     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.680781     Document Type: Conference Paper

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