Geminate electron-hole recombination in organic solids in the presence of a donor-acceptor heterojunction

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Wojcik, Mariusz ^a   Michalak, Przemyslaw ^a   Tachiya, M ^b  

^a LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL AND SIMULATION MODEL; DONOR-ACCEPTOR HETEROJUNCTIONS; ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; ORGANIC SOLIDS; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HOLE MOBILITY; SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 77951774726     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3397992     Document Type: Article

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