Incomplete exciton harvesting from fullerenes in bulk heterojunction solar cells

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4037-4041

  Burkhard, George F ^a   Hoke, Eric T ^a   Scully, Shawn R ^b   McGehee, Michael D ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AT-WAVELENGTH; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; BUTYRIC ACIDS; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERFACES; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; EXCITON DIFFUSION LENGTH; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; STATE OF THE ART;

ESTERS; EXCITONS; FATTY ACIDS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

(6,6) PHENYL C61 BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTER; (6,6)-PHENYL C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTER; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOSELENIUM DERIVATIVE; POLY(3 HEXYL)SELENOPHENE; POLY(3-HEXYL)SELENOPHENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLAR ENERGY;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FULLERENES; LIGHT; ORGANOSELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 71949095640     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl902205n     Document Type: Article

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