Entropy of charge separation in organic photovoltaic cells: The benefit of higher dimensionality

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 3013-3015

  Gregg, Brian A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CHARGE SEPARATION PROCESS; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; COULOMB BARRIER; EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS; HIGHER DIMENSIONS; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; TIME-DEPENDENT;

ENTROPY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

SEPARATION;

EID: 84858959368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz2012403     Document Type: Review

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