Investigation of defects by admittance spectroscopy measurements in poly (3-hexylthiophene):(6,6)-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester organic solar cells degraded under air exposure

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Khelifi, Samira ^a   Decock, Koen ^a   Lauwaert, Johan ^a   Vrielinck, Henk ^a   Spoltore, Donato ^b   Piersimoni, Fortunato ^b   Manca, Jean ^b   Belghachi, Abderrahmane ^c   Burgelman, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BECHAR   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMITTANCE SPECTROSCOPIES; AIR EXPOSURE; CAPACITANCE VOLTAGE MEASUREMENTS; DEFECT STATE; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HIGH CONCENTRATION; LAYER MODEL; METHYL ESTERS; MODELING AND SIMULATION; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; P-TYPE DOPING; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CARRIER MOBILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFECTS; ELECTRIC ADMITTANCE; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BUTYRIC ACID;

EID: 81355163283     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3658023     Document Type: Article

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