Organic solar cell efficiencies under the aspect of reduced surface recombination velocities

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1759-1763

  Wagenpfahl, Alexander ^a   Deibel, Carsten ^a   Dyakonov, Vladimir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Charge carrier mobility; organic semiconductors; solar cell efficiency; surface recombination

Indexed keywords

BULK RECOMBINATION; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM; FINITE SURFACE; KEY PARAMETERS; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; MAXIMUM POWER; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PASSIVATED SURFACE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCY; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; SURFACE RECOMBINATION; SURFACE RECOMBINATION VELOCITIES; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS;

CHARGE CARRIERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HOLE MOBILITY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 78650046374     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2042142     Document Type: Article

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