Magnetic studies of photovoltaic processes in organic solar cells

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1801-1806

  Zang, Huidong ^a   Ivanov, Ilia N ^b   Hu, Bin ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunctions; charge transfer (CT) complexes; magnetic field effects; organic solar cells

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK-HETEROJUNCTIONS; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CHARGE TRANSFER COMPLEX; CT COMPLEX; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERFACES; DOUBLE LAYERS; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON DONORS; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; EXCITONIC STATE; MAGNETIC STUDIES; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOCURRENT GENERATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROCESS; POLARON PAIRS; POLY(3-ALKYLTHIOPHENE); THERMAL-ANNEALING;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; DISSOCIATION; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; METAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 78650045050     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2049479     Document Type: Article

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