Combined optical and electrical modeling of polymer: Fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Kotlarski, Jan D ^a   Blom, Paul W M ^a   Koster, Lambert J A ^a,b   Lenes, Martijn ^a,b   Slooff, Lenneke H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE;

EXCITON GENERATION; RECOMBINATION LOSSES; SPACE CHARGE FORMATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 43049096431     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2905243     Document Type: Article

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