Triplet exciton generation in bulk-heterojunction solar cells based on endohedral fullerenes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 9088-9094

  Liedtke, Moritz ^a,d   Sperlich, Andreas ^a   Kraus, Hannes ^a   Baumann, Andreas ^a   Deibel, Carsten ^a   Wirix, Maarten J M ^b   Loos, Joachim ^b,e   Cardona, Claudia M ^c   Dyakonov, Vladimir ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c LUNA INNOVATIONS INC   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTOR MOLECULES; BACK TRANSFER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK-HETEROJUNCTIONS; CHARGE CARRIER EXTRACTION; ENDOHEDRAL FULLERENE; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; HIGH VOLTAGE; INTRA-MOLECULAR CHARGE TRANSFER; METHYL ESTERS; PHOTOGENERATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; POLYMER CHAINS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; STATE OF THE ART; TRIMETALLIC NITRIDES; TRIPLET EXCITONS; TRIPLET STATE;

BUTYRIC ACID; CHARGE CARRIERS; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EXCITONS; FATTY ACIDS; FULLERENES; ION EXCHANGE; NITRIDES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; POLYMER BLENDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL; CELL; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXTRACTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 79958839570     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja2025432     Document Type: Article

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