Efficient light harvesting in a photovoltaic diode composed of a semiconductor conjugated copolymer blend

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2204-2206

  Russell, David M ^a   Arias, Ana C ^a   Friend, Richard H ^a   Silva, Carlos ^a   Ego, Christophe ^b   Grimsdale, Andrew C ^b   Müllen, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE GENERATION; CONJUGATED COPOLYMERS; GEMINATE RECOMBINATION; LIGHT-HARVESTING; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE TRANSFER; PHOTOVOLTAIC DIODES; PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; POLY-P-PHENYLENEVINYLENE; POLYFLUORENE COPOLYMER; POLYMERIC SEMICONDUCTORS; QUASI-STEADY STATE; RECOMBINATION KINETICS; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; SIDE-CHAINS;

CHARGE TRANSFER; ENERGY TRANSFER; TERNARY SYSTEMS;

COPOLYMERS;

EID: 79956041375     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1464226     Document Type: Article

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