Cascade organic solar cells

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 4132-4140

  Schlenker, Cody W ^a   Barlier, Vincent S ^a   Chin, Stephanie W ^b   Whited, Matthew T ^a   McAnally, R Eric ^a   Forrest, Stephen R ^c   Thompson, Mark E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Michigan ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

charge transfer state; energy cascade; excitation transfer; open circuit voltage; Organic solar cells; photovoltaics; polaron pair

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER STATE; ENERGY CASCADE; EXCITATION TRANSFER; OPEN CIRCUITS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLARON PAIR;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLARONS; SOLAR CELLS; TIN;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 80053005987     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm200525h     Document Type: Article

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