Organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1517-1527

  Deibel, Carsten ^a   Dyakonov, Vladimir ^b   Brabec, Christoph J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Organic semiconductors; photovoltaic effect; polymers

Indexed keywords

CHARGE EXTRACTION; ELEMENTARY PROCESS; HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; PHOTOGENERATION; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PROCESSABLE; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES;

ENERGY CONVERSION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 78650039706     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2048892     Document Type: Article

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