Impact of molecular weight on charge carrier dissociation in solar cells from a polyfluorene derivative

Organic Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1275-1281

  Moet, D J D ^a   Lenes, M ^a,d   Kotlarski, J D ^a   Veenstra, S C ^b,d   Sweelssen, J ^c,d   Koetse, M M ^c,d   de Boer, B ^a   Blom, P W M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^d DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dissociation; Molecular weight; Polyfluorene; Polymer; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

DISSOCIATION; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CHARGE CARRIER DISSOCIATION; EFFICIENT DISSOCIATION; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUMERICAL DEVICE SIMULATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLYFLUORENE DERIVATIVE; POLYFLUORENES;

MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

EID: 69549097490     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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