Endohedral fullerenes for organic photovoltaic devices

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 208-212

  Ross, Russel B ^a   Cardona, Claudia M ^b   Guldi, Dirk M ^c   Sankaranarayanan, Shankara Gayathri ^c   Reese, Matthew O ^d   Kopidakis, Nikos ^d   Peet, Jeff ^e   Walker, Bright ^e   Bazan, Guillermo C ^e   Van Keuren, Edward ^a   Holloway, Brian C ^b   Drees, Martin ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUNA INNOVATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

CHARGE TRANSFER PROCESS; ENDOHEDRAL FULLERENE; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TRIMETALLIC NITRIDES;

FULLERENES;

EID: 60749131856     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2379     Document Type: Article

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