Effect of molecular packing on the exciton diffusion length in organic solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Rim, Seung Bum ^a   Fink, Reinhold F ^b   Schöneboom, Jan C ^c   Erk, Peter ^c   Peumans, Peter ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITON DIFFUSION LENGTH; MOLECULAR PACKING; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

DIFFUSION; EXCITONS; ISOMERS; PHOTOCURRENTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 35549010610     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2783202     Document Type: Article

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