Concentration-dependent hole mobility and recombination coefficient in bulk heterojunctions determined from transient absorption spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 3096-3100

  Eng, Mattias P ^a,b   Barnes, Piers R F ^a   Durrant, James R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FUNCTIONS; BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE CARRIER DECAY; CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT; FIT PARAMETERS; FREE ELECTRON; FREE HOLES; LANGEVIN RECOMBINATION; LOCALIZED HOLES; MULTIPLE TRAPPING; RECOMBINATION COEFFICIENT; RECOMBINATION RATE; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES; TRAP DISTRIBUTIONS; TRAP STATE;

ABSORPTION; CHARGE CARRIERS; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HOLE CONCENTRATION; HOLE MOBILITY;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77958462155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz1011803     Document Type: Article

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