Optimizing organic photovoltaics using tailored heterojunctions: A photoinduced absorption study of oligothiophenes with low band gaps

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Schueppel, R ^a   Schmidt, K ^b   Uhrich, C ^a   Schulze, K ^a   Wynands, D ^a   Bredas J L ^b   Brier, E ^c   Reinold, E ^c   Bu, H B ^c   Baeuerle, P ^c   Maennig, B ^a   Pfeiffer, M ^a   Leo, K ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

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EID: 40849087993     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.085311     Document Type: Article

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