Imbalanced mobilities causing S-shaped IV curves in planar heterojunction organic solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Tress, Wolfgang ^a   Petrich, Annette ^a   Hummert, Markus ^a   Hein, Moritz ^a   Leo, Karl ^a   Riede, Moritz ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIFT-DIFFUSION MODEL; ELECTRICAL SIMULATION; FILL FACTOR; I - V CURVE; INTERFACE EFFECT; LOW-MOBILITY; MISMATCH FACTOR; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PERYLENES; PHOTOACTIVE MATERIALS; S-SHAPED;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON MOBILITY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HOLE MOBILITY; SOLAR CELLS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 79951777825     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3553764     Document Type: Article

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