Tailored heterojunctions for efficient thin-film organic solar cells: A photoinduced absorption study

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6656, Issue , 2007, Pages

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

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d HELIATEK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Donor acceptor heterojunction; Open circuit voltage; Organic solar cells; Triplet recombination

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY CONVERSION; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

DONOR-ACCEPTOR HETEROJUNCTION; OLIGOTHIOPHENE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; TRIPLET RECOMBINATION;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 42149137339     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.732295     Document Type: Conference Paper

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