Relative photon-to-carrier efficiencies of alternating nanolayers of zinc phthalocyanine and C60 films assessed by time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 113, Issue 43, 2009, Pages 18842-18850

  Esenturk, Okan ^a,b,c   Melinger, Joseph S ^a,b,c   Lane, Paul A ^a,b,c   Heilweil, Edwin J ^a,b,c  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; ALTERNATING LAYERS; ALTERNATING MULTILAYERS; BLENDED FILMS; BUCKMINSTERFULLERENES; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CLOSE PROXIMITY; DELAY TIME; INTERFACIAL AREAS; LAYER THICKNESS; LOW CARRIER DENSITY; NANO LAYERS; OPTICAL DENSITIES; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; PICOSECONDS; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; THZ SIGNAL; TIME-RESOLVED; ULTRAFAST DECAY; ZINC PHTHALOCYANINES;

CARBON CLUSTERS; FULLERENES; MULTILAYERS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; ULTRATHIN FILMS; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

MULTILAYER FILMS;

EID: 70449565153     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp904107x     Document Type: Article

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