Spatial modeling of the 3D morphology of hybrid polymer-ZnO solar cells, based on electron tomography data

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1920-1947

  Stenzel, O ^a   Hassfeld, H ^a   Thiedmann, R ^a   Koster, L J A ^a   Oosterhout, S D ^a   van Bavel, S S ^a   Wienk, M M ^a   Loos, J ^a   Janssen, R A J ^a   Schmidt, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive thresholding; Exciton quenching; Marked point process; Model fitting; Model validation; Parameter estimation; Polymer solar cells; Segmentation; Simulation; Spatial statistics; Stochastic geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858426258     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOAS468     Document Type: Article

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