Molecular semiconductor blends: Microstructure, charge carrier transport, and application in photovoltaic cells

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 206, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2683-2694

  Opitz, Andreas ^a   Wagner, Julia ^a   Brütting, Wolfgang ^a   Hinderhofer, Alexander ^b   Schreiber, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMBIPOLAR; BLENDED SYSTEMS; BULK-HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; CONDUCTING MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE FILMS; CU-PHTHALOCYANINE; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TRANSPORTING MATERIALS; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; FULLERENE C; HOLE-TRANSPORTING MATERIALS; IN-PHASE; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR ARRANGEMENTS; MOLECULAR MATERIALS; MOLECULAR SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOPHASE SEPARATION; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR BLENDS; PERCOLATION PATH; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; PLANAR MOLECULES; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; TWO MODEL SYSTEMS; WHITE-LIGHT ILLUMINATION; X-RAY SCATTERING MEASUREMENTS;

BLENDING; CHARGE CARRIERS; COPPER; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE INTERFACES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEPARATION; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLVENTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 73849084585     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.200925238     Document Type: Article

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