Charge extraction and photocurrent in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Petersen, Andreas ^a   Kirchartz, Thomas ^b   Wagner, Thomas A ^a  

^a ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84856505055     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.045208     Document Type: Article

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