Simultaneous measurement of carrier density and mobility of organic semiconductors using capacitance techniques

Organic Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1879-1885

  Li, Jian V ^a   Nardes, Alexandre M ^a   Liang, Ziqi ^a   Shaheen, Sean E ^a   Gregg, Brian A ^a   Levi, Dean H ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitance technique; Carrier density; Carrier mobility; Organic solar cell

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CARRIER MOBILITY; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION; EXTRACTION; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

CAPACITANCE VOLTAGE; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; MEASUREMENT FREQUENCY; MOBILITY EXTRACTION; PLANAR DEVICE STRUCTURES; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT;

CAPACITANCE;

EID: 80052189579     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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