Effect of charge trapping on geminate recombination and polymer solar cell performance

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1063-1069

  Groves, Chris ^a   Blakesley, James C ^b   Greenham, Neil C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charge transport; Monte Carlo; Photovoltaic diode; Semiconducting polymer; Trapping

Indexed keywords

4-PHENYLENEDIAMINE; BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; BI-LAYER DEVICES; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CHARGE TRANSPORT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GEMINATE RECOMBINATION; METHYL ESTERS; MOLECULAR DESIGN; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO MODEL; NANO SCALE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DIODE; PHOTOVOLTAIC DIODES; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PV PERFORMANCE; QUANTUM CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS; SOLAR CELL SYSTEM;

CHARGE TRAPPING; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; POLYMERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLAR CELLS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLYMERS; SOLAR ENERGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 77949447821     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl100080r     Document Type: Article

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