Theoretical investigation of the C60/copper phthalocyanine organic photovoltaic heterojunction

Nano Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 248-257

  Ren, Jun ^a,b   Meng, Sheng ^c   Kaxiras, Efthimios ^d  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ab initio; heterojunction; interface; Organic solar cell; time dependent density functional theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860194698     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-012-0204-7     Document Type: Article

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