Evidence for high-efficiency exciton dissociation at polymer/single-walled carbon nanotube interfaces in planar nano-heterojunction photovoltaics

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 6251-6259

  Ham, Moon Ho ^a   Paulus, Geraldine L C ^a   Lee, Chang Young ^a   Song, Changsik ^a   Kalantar Zadeh, Kourosh ^a,b   Choi, Wonjoon ^a   Han, Jae Hee ^a   Strano, Michael S ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

exciton diffusion; Monte Carlo modeling; n doping of carbon nanotubes; organic photovoltaics; polymer hybrid solar cells; single walled carbon nanotubes; well aligned carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

EXCITON DIFFUSION; MONTE CARLO MODELING; N-DOPING; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLYMER HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; WELL-ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOCIATION; EXCITONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 78049341225     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1019384     Document Type: Article

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