Origin of the efficient polaron-pair dissociation in polymer-fullerene blends

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Deibel, Carsten ^a   Strobel, Thomas ^a   Dyakonov, Vladimir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSPORT; COULOMB BINDING; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; KINETIC MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; LOCAL CHARGE; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; PAIR DISSOCIATION; PHOTOGENERATED POLARONS; POLARON PAIRS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMER-FULLERENE; STATE-OF-THE-ART DEVICES;

CHARGE CARRIERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLAR CELLS;

POLARONS;

EID: 68749110883     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.036402     Document Type: Article

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