Imaging the carrier photogeneration in nanoscale phase segregated organic heterojunctions by Kelvin probe force microscopy

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3337-3342

  Spadafora, Evan J ^a   Demadrille, Renaud ^a   Ratier, Bernard ^b   Grévin, Benjamin ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Bulk Heterojunction; Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM); noncontact atomic force microscopy (NC AFM); organic photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CARRIER GENERATION; DAMPING SIGNALS; DIRECT VISUALIZATION; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERFACES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH RESOLUTION; KELVIN PROBE FORCE MICROSCOPY; LATERAL RESOLUTION; METHYL ESTERS; NANO METER RANGE; NANO SCALE; NONCONTACT ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ORGANIC HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOGENERATION; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE PHOTOVOLTAGES; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA;

ATOMS; DAMPING; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PROBES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLVENTS; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM; VISUALIZATION;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 77956436434     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl101001d     Document Type: Article

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