Charge carrier lifetime and recombination in bulk heterojunction solar cells

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1746-1758

  Pivrikas, Almantas ^a   Neugebauer, Helmut ^a   Sariciftci, Niyazi Serdar ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; carrier lifetime; charge transport; organic photovoltaic (OPV); organic solar cells; recombination

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE TRANSPORT; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; RECOMBINATION;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CARRIER LIFETIME; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CARRIER MOBILITY;

EID: 78650079186     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2044978     Document Type: Article

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