Vibrational energy nediates charge separation in organic photovoltaic materials

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1776-1783

  Pensack, Ryan D ^a   Banyas, Kyle M ^a   Asbury, John B ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge carrier processes; photovoltaic cell materials; spectroscopy; ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

[CARBONYL; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CHARGE CARRIER PROCESS; CHARGE SEPARATION PROCESS; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CHARGE TRANSFER STATE; CHARGE-SEPARATED STATE; COULOMBIC POTENTIALS; ELECTRON-ACCEPTING; ELECTRON-TRANSFER REACTIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; HOT CHARGE; MEH-PPV; METHOXY; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTO-INDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL MATERIALS; RADIAL VARIATIONS; SHALLOW TRAPS; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT MEASUREMENTS; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TIME-SCALES; ULTRAFAST OPTICS; ULTRAFAST TIMESCALES; ULTRAFAST VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATIONAL ENERGIES; VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCIES;

CARBONYLATION; CHARGE CARRIERS; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; ION EXCHANGE; MASS TRANSFER; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS;

HOT ELECTRONS;

EID: 77957123073     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2041751     Document Type: Article

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