Fluorescence and electroluminescence quenching evidence of interfacial charge transfer in poly (3-hexylthiophene): Graphene oxide bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 942-951

  Hill, Caleb M ^a   Zhu, Yan ^a,b   Pan, Shanlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

cyclic voltammetry; electrogenerated chemiluminescence; fluorescence quenching; graphene; graphene oxide; organic photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; CONJUGATE POLYMERS; ELECTROCHEMICAL STUDIES; ELECTROGENERATED CHEMILUMINESCENCE; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; FUNCTIONALIZED; INTERFACIAL CHARGE TRANSFER; OPEN CIRCUIT POTENTIAL; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SOLID FILMS; SURFACTANT-ASSISTED METHOD;

CARRIER MOBILITY; CHARGE TRANSFER; CHEMILUMINESCENCE; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DISPLAY DEVICES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; GRAPHENE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ION EXCHANGE; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSHEETS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMER FILMS; QUENCHING; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 79951905397     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1022457     Document Type: Article

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