A unified description of current-voltage characteristics in organic and hybrid photovoltaics under low light intensity

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1393-1398

  Marsh, R A ^a   McNeill, C R ^a   Abrusci, A ^a   Campbell, A R ^a   Friend, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; FULLERENES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMERS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

BENZOTHIADIAZOLE; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CHARGE DELOCALIZATION; CRITICAL FIELDS; CURRENT VOLTAGES; ELECTRIC-FIELD DEPENDENCES; GEMINATE RECOMBINATIONS; INTENSITY DEPENDENTS; LOSS MECHANISMS; LOW LIGHTS; MATERIAL COMBINATIONS; MATERIAL PROPERTIES; METHYL ESTERS; NANO CRYSTALS; PHENYLENEDIAMINE; PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SIMPLE MODELS; UNIFIED DESCRIPTIONS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FULLERENES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERS; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 46749096825     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl080200p     Document Type: Article

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