Photoconductivity anisotropy study in uniaxially aligned polymer based planar photodiodes

Organic Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 36-42

  Gupta, Dhritiman ^a   Brenner, Thomas J K ^a   Albert Seifried, Sebastian ^a   Lee, Mi Jung ^a   Heeney, Martin ^b   McCulloch, Iain ^b   Sirringhaus, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Donor acceptor bilayer; Photoconductive gain; Photoconductivity anisotropy; Transient response; Uniaxial polymer alignment

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTODIODES; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

BACKGROUND ILLUMINATION; BI-LAYER; CHARGE CARRIER PHOTOGENERATION; DIRECTIONAL ALIGNMENT; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR MATERIALS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE GAINS; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; STEADY STATE AND TRANSIENTS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 80155154324     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2011.08.034     Document Type: Article

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