Implications of a reduced polaron recombination on polymer: Fullerene solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7052, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Deibel, Carsten ^a   Wagenpfahl, Alexander ^a   Baumann, Andreas ^a   Dyakonov, Vladimir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charge carrier recombination; Organic semiconductors; Photovoltaic effect; Polymers

Indexed keywords

BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATIONS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CHARACTERISATION; CHARGE CARRIER RECOMBINATION; CURRENT VOLTAGES; LANGEVIN; LANGEVIN RECOMBINATIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; RECOMBINATION RATES; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

CHARGE CARRIERS; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS;

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 57649096869     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.794751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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