Below-gap excitation of π-conjugated polymer-fullerene blends: Implications for bulk organic heterojunction solar cells

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Drori, T ^a   Sheng, C X ^a,b   Ndobe, A ^a   Singh, S ^a   Holt, J ^a   Vardeny, Z V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; FULLERENES; GALLIUM ALLOYS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLARONS; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

ACTION SPECTRUM; AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); BULK-HETEROJUNCTIONS; CHARGE TRANSFER (CT) COMPLEXES; DESIGN ENGINEERING; ELECTROABSORPTION (EA); FULLERENE MOLECULES; GAP EXCITATIONS; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS (OSC); PHOTO MODULATION; PHOTOPHYSICS; POLARON; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER-FULLERENE; SHORT CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENTS; SOLAR CELL DEVICES;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 47949114965     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.037401     Document Type: Article

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