Charge transport and photocurrent generation in PPAT:ZnO bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 158, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 400-410

  Sharma, G D ^a   Suresh, P ^a   Balaraju, P ^a   Sharma, S K ^a   Roy, M S ^b  

^a JAI NARAIN VYAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b DEFENCE LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Charge generation process; Photo induced charge transfer; Photovoltaic effect; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOCURRENTS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE GENERATION PROCESSES; PHOTO INDUCED CHARGE TRANSFER;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 45049084334     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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