Bipolar charge transport in PCPDTBT-PCBM bulk-heterojunctions for photovoltaic applications

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1757-1766

  Morana, Mauro ^a,b   Wegscheider, Matthias ^d   Bonanni, Alberta ^d   Kopidakis, Nikos ^e   Shaheen, Sean ^e   Scharber, Markus ^a   Zhu, Zhengguo ^c   Waller, David ^c   Gaudiana, Russell ^c   Brabec, Christoph ^a  

^a Konarka Austria Forschungs und Entwicklungs GmbH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c KONARKA TECHNOLOGIES INC   (United States)

^d JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^e NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BAND GAPS; BIPOLAR CHARGE; BULK-HETEROJUNCTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; NEAR INFRA-RED (NIR); PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV); PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 47349117184     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200701428     Document Type: Article

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