Coupled optoelectronic simulation of organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells: Parameter extraction and sensitivity analysis

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Hausermann R ^a,c   Knapp, E ^a   Moos, M ^a   Reinke, N A ^a   Flatz, T ^b   Ruhstaller, B ^a,b  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b FLUXIM AG   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CHARGE TRANSFER EXCITONS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CURVE; DEVICE PARAMETERS; DISSOCIATION PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FREE CHARGE CARRIERS; METHYL ESTERS; MULTILAYER STACKS; ONSAGER; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; PARAMETER VALUES; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); SIMULATION-BASED; THICKNESS DEPENDENCE; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

CARRIER MOBILITY; CHARGE TRANSFER; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ESTERS; EXCITONS; EXPERIMENTS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ION EXCHANGE; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARAMETER EXTRACTION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR CELLS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 71749086857     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3259367     Document Type: Article

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