Charge recombination in organic photovoltaic devices with high open-circuit voltages

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 130, Issue 41, 2008, Pages 13653-13658

  Westenhoff, Sebastian ^a,b   Howard, Ian A ^a   Hodgkiss, Justin M ^a   Kirov, Kiril R ^a   Bronstein, Hugo A ^c   Williams, Charlotte K ^c   Greenham, Neil C ^a   Friend, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; EXCITONS; MECHANISMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMERS; SEPARATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE PROBES;

BINARY BLENDS; BOUND CHARGE; CHARGE RECOMBINATION; CHARGE SEPARATION; CIRCUIT VOLTAGES; EXCITON STATES; HETERO JUNCTION; INTERFACIAL CHARGING; INTERSYSTEM CROSSING; IR PROBES; LIMITING PROCESS; LOSS MECHANISMS; OPEN CIRCUITS; OPTICAL TRANSIENT; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGES; POLARONIC STATES; POLYFLUORENE COPOLYMERS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; TIME RESOLUTIONS; TRIPLET EXCITONS;

ELECTRIC CHARGE;

COPOLYMER; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 53849148279     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja803054g     Document Type: Article

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