Enhanced performance of P3HT/PCBM bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices by adding spin 1/2 radicals

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 160, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 262-265

  Zhang, Ye ^a   Hukic Markosian, Golda ^b   Mascaro, Debra ^c   Vardeny, Zeev Valy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunctions; Optically detected magnetic resonance; Organic photovoltaic devices; Power conversion; Solar cells; Spin spin interaction

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; OPTICALLY DETECTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION; SPIN-SPIN INTERACTION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SPIN DYNAMICS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 76349118557     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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