Analyzing local exciton generation profiles as a means to extract transport lengths in organic solar cells

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Tumbleston, John R ^a   Ko, Doo Hyun ^a   Samulski, Edward T ^a   Lopez, Rene ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 78649730184     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.205325     Document Type: Article

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