Mechanism of recombination losses in bulk heterojunction P3HT: PCBM solar cells studied using intensity modulated photocurrent spectroscopy

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 392-401

  Byers, Joshua C ^a   Ballantyne, Scott ^b   Rodionov, Konstantin ^b   Mann, Alex ^b   Semenikhin, O A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Wired Sun Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Intensity modulated photocurrent spectroscopy (IMPS); Organic photovoltaics; Organic solar cells; P3HT:PCBM organic solar cells; Surface and interfacial recombination

Indexed keywords

AGING MECHANISM; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CHARGE EXTRACTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN TECHNIQUES; INTERFACIAL PROCESS; LIGHT INTENSITY; MODULATED PHOTOCURRENT; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTO-VOLTAGE; PHOTOEXCITED HOLES; PHOTOPROCESSES; RECOMBINATION LOSS; RECOMBINATION RATE;

EXTRACTION; PASSIVATION; PHOTOCURRENTS; SOLAR CELLS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84555166649     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am100998t     Document Type: Article

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