Reappraising the need for bulk heterojunctions in polymer-fullerene photovoltaics: The role of carrier transport in all-solution-processed P3HT/PCBM bilayer solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 113, Issue 46, 2009, Pages 20050-20060

  Ayzner, Alexander L ^a   Tassone, Christopher J ^a   Tolbert, Sarah H ^a   Schwartz, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE; BI-LAYER; BI-LAYER DEVICES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK MOBILITY; CARRIER RECOMBINATION; CRYSTALLINITIES; DEGREE OF CONTROL; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; EXCITON DIFFUSION LENGTH; EXCITON SPLITTING; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; LENGTH SCALE; MATERIAL COMBINATION; METHYL ESTERS; O-DICHLOROBENZENE; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PLANAR INTERFACE; POLY(3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE-2 ,5-DIYL); POLYMER-FULLERENE; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; THERMAL-ANNEALING; TRANSIT TIME; TWO LAYERS; TWO-COMPONENT; UNDERLAYERS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; BLENDING; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DICHLOROMETHANE; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ELECTRONS; ESTERS; EXCITONS; FABRICATION; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMERS; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 72149085467     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp9050897     Document Type: Article

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