Heterojunction organic photovoltaic cells as molecular heat engines: A simple model for the performance analysis

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 115, Issue 43, 2011, Pages 21396-21401

  Einax, Mario ^a,b   Dierl, Marcel ^a   Nitzan, Abraham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE; DEVICE MODELS; DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES; MASTER EQUATIONS; MAXIMUM POWER; MINIMAL MODEL; MODEL YIELDS; ORGANIC HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICAL FEATURES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUALITATIVE BEHAVIOR; THERMODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; HEAT ENGINES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 80055056255     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp205856x     Document Type: Article

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