Steric control of the donor/acceptor interface: Implications in organic photovoltaic charge generation

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 12106-12114

  Holcombe, Thomas W ^a   Norton, Joseph E ^f   Rivnay, Jonathan ^e   Woo, Claire H ^b,c   Goris, Ludwig ^e,g   Piliego, Claudia ^c   Griffini, Gianmarco ^c,h   Sellinger, Alan ^e   Brédas, Jean Luc ^f   Salleo, Alberto ^e   Fréchet, Jean M J ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e Stanford University   (United States)

^f GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^h POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC SCIENCE; CHARGE GENERATION; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CHARGE TRANSFER STATE; DEVICE EFFICIENCY; DONOR/ACCEPTOR INTERFACE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; OUTPUT PARAMETERS; PHOTOCURRENT GENERATIONS; POLYMER BACKBONES; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; STERIC CONTROL; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS; SYNTHETIC METHODS; TUNABLE ENERGY;

EXCITED STATES; ION EXCHANGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

CHARGE TRANSFER;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC;

EID: 79961158109     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja203235z     Document Type: Article

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