Quantum-chemical approach to electronic coupling: Application to charge separation and charge recombination pathways in a model molecular donor - Acceptor system for organic solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3429-3433

  Kawatsu, Tsutomu ^a,b   Coropceanu, Veaceslav ^a   Ye, Aijun ^a,c   Brédas, Jean Luc ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE RECOMBINATION PATHWAYS; CHARGE SEPARATION; ELECTRONIC COUPLING;

CHARGE CARRIERS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749115926     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp711186j     Document Type: Article

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