Ultrafast exciton dissociation followed by nongeminate charge recombination in PCDTBT:PCBM photovoltaic blends

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 9469-9479

  Etzold, Fabian ^a   Howard, Ian A ^a   Mauer, Ralf ^a   Meister, Michael ^a   Kim, Tae Dong ^b   Lee, Kwang Sup ^b   Baek, Nam Seob ^c   Laquai, Frédéric ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Hannam University   (South Korea)

^c Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-CAST; BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; BIAS DEPENDENCE; BLEND FILMS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE CARRIER EXTRACTION; CHARGE CARRIER RECOMBINATION; CHARGE GENERATION; CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; DECAY CHANNELS; DENSITY OF STATE; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; EXCITON DYNAMICS; EXCITON EMISSION; FILL FACTOR; FREE CARRIERS; FREE CHARGE; FREE CHARGE CARRIERS; GEMINATE RECOMBINATION; HIGH YIELD; I - V CURVE; METHANOFULLERENES; OPTICAL PROBE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTO-EXCITATIONS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PRISTINE FILMS; PRISTINE POLYMERS; RECOMBINATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH GROUPS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TIME RANGE; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES; ULTRA-FAST;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHARGE CARRIERS; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DISSOCIATION; DYNAMICS; EQUIPMENT; EXCITONS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LAKES; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOEXCITATION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

FULLERENE; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; POLY[N 11'' HENICOSANYL 2,7 CARBAZOLE ALT 5,5 (4',7' DI 2 THIENYL 2',1',3' BENZOTHIADIAZOLE)]; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENSITY GRADIENT; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; PHOTOCURRENT; PHOTOPHYSICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC BLEND; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SOLAR CELL; SYNTHESIS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST EXCITON DISSOCIATION;

EID: 79959284688     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja201837e     Document Type: Article

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