Theoretical and experimental investigation on the influence of the molecular polarizability of novel zinc phthalocyanine derivatives on the open circuit voltage of organic hetero-junction solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 310-316

  Bruder, Ingmar ^a   Ojala, Antti ^a   Lennartz, Christian ^a   Sundarraj, Sudhakar ^b   Schöneboom, Jan ^a   Sens, Rüdiger ^a   Hwang, Jaehyung ^a   Erk, Peter ^a   Weis, Jürgen ^c  

^a BASF SE   (Germany)

^b BASF South East Asia Pte Ltd ^*  (Singapore)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coulomb interaction; Molecular polarizability; Organic heterojunction solar cell; Single crystal structure

Indexed keywords

CHARGE SEPARATION MECHANISM; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DONOR MOLECULES; ELECTRONIC EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION XRD; MODEL SYSTEM; MOLECULAR ARRANGEMENTS; MOLECULAR POLARIZABILITIES; ORGANIC HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL; ORGANIC HETEROJUNCTIONS; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL CALCULATION; ZINC PHTHALOCYANINES;

COULOMB INTERACTIONS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; QUANTUM THEORY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 72449158359     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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