Absence of postnanosecond charge carrier relaxation in poly(3- hexylthiophene)/fullerene blends

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1368-1371

  Savenije, Tom J ^a,b   Murthy, D H K ^b,c   Gunz, Matthias ^a   Gorenflot, Julien ^a   Siebbeles, Laurens D A ^b   Dyakonov, Vladimir ^a,d   Deibel, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE MOBILITY; CHARGE CARRIER RECOMBINATION; CHARGE CARRIER RELAXATION; DECAY KINETICS; LOWER LIMITS; METHYL ESTERS; PHOTO-INDUCED; PHOTOCONDUCTANCE; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POSITIVE CHARGES; THERMAL RELEASE; TIME WINDOWS; TIME-RESOLVED; TRAP STATE;

BUTYRIC ACID; FATTY ACIDS; HOLE MOBILITY;

CHARGE CARRIERS;

EID: 79959482527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz200569h     Document Type: Article

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