Photoinduced carrier generation and decay dynamics in intercalated and non-intercalated polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunctions

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 5635-5646

  Rance, William L ^a   Ferguson, Andrew J ^b   McCarthy Ward, Thomas ^c   Heeney, Martin ^c   Ginley, David S ^b   Olson, Dana C ^b   Rumbles, Garry ^b   Kopidakis, Nikos ^b  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

blend; conjugated polymer; electron transfer; fullerene; intercalation; photoconductance

Indexed keywords

BIS-ADDUCTS; BLEND; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CARRIER GENERATION; CHARGE EXTRACTION; CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS; DECAY DYNAMICS; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; DYNAMIC PROCESS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTRON-ACCEPTING; EXCITON QUENCHING; FULLERENE CLUSTERS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGHER FULLERENES; INTERCALATED STRUCTURES; METHYL ESTERS; NANOMORPHOLOGIES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTO-INDUCED; PHOTOCONDUCTANCE; PHOTOCONDUCTANCE SIGNALS; SPATIAL SEPARATION; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; WEIGHT RATIOS;

BUTYRIC ACID; CARRIER LIFETIME; CRYSTALS; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ELECTRONS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; EXCITONS; FATTY ACIDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HOLE MOBILITY; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMER BLENDS; QUENCHING; THIOPHENE;

FULLERENES;

EID: 79961041295     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201251v     Document Type: Conference Paper

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