Thickness-dependent transient photocurrent response of organic photodiodes

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 596-598

  Valouch, Sebastian ^a   Nintz, Mirco ^b   Kettlitz, Siegfried W ^a   Christ, Nico S ^a   Lemmer, Uli ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; organic photodiode; transient photocurrent

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; GEOMETRIC CAPACITANCE; METHYL ESTERS; NANOSECOND LASER PULSE; ORGANIC PHOTODIODES; POLYHEXYLTHIOPHENE; SPIN SPEED; TRANSIENT PHOTOCURRENT; TRANSIENT PHOTOCURRENTS;

OPTICS; PHOTONICS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84858991585     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2184276     Document Type: Article

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