Origin of the dark-current ideality factor in polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Wetzelaer, G A H ^a,b   Kuik, M ^a   Lenes, M ^a   Blom, P W M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

^c HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; IDEALITY FACTORS; NONIDEALITY; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; RECOMBINATION MECHANISMS; TRAPPED CARRIERS;

FULLERENES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 80055016781     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3651752     Document Type: Article

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