Merocyanine/C60 planar heterojunction solar cells: Effect of dye orientation on exciton dissociation and solar cell performance

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-96

  Ojala, Antti ^a,b   Petersen, Andreas ^c   Fuchs, Andreas ^b   Lovrincic, Robert ^d,f   Pölking, Carl ^d   Trollmann, Jens ^d   Hwang, Jaehyung ^b   Lennartz, Christian ^b   Reichelt, Helmut ^b   Höffken, Hans Wolfgang ^b   Pucci, Annemarie ^d   Erk, Peter ^b   Kirchartz, Thomas ^e   Würthner, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

^c ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

exciton dissociation; heterojunction solar cells; merocyanine dyes; organic photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; CHARGE TRANSFER STATE; DYE MOLECULE; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; FILL FACTOR; GEMINATE RECOMBINATION; HEATED SUBSTRATES; HETERO INTERFACES; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; INFRARED ELLIPSOMETRY; MEROCYANINE; MEROCYANINE DYE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POST ANNEALING; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

CHARGE TRANSFER; DISSOCIATION; EXCITONS; GLASS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 84855334406     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201101697     Document Type: Article

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