Determination of carrier lifetime in bulk-heterojunction solar cells by continuous-wave photoinduced absorption spectroscopy

Applied Physics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Kobayashi, Takashi ^a   Terada, Yosuke ^a   Nagase, Takashi ^a   Naito, Hiroyoshi ^a,b  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CONTINUOUS WAVES; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; PHOTOINDUCED ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; SHORT-CIRCUIT CONDITIONS; TRAPPED CARRIERS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

CARRIER LIFETIME;

EID: 83455228332     PISSN: 18820778     EISSN: 18820786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/APEX.4.126602     Document Type: Article

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