Manifestation of carrier relaxation through the manifold of localized states in PCDTBT:PC 60BM bulk heterojunction material: The role of pc 84bm traps on the carrier transport

Advanced Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2273-2277

  Leong, Wei Lin ^a   Hernandez Sosa, Gerardo ^a   Cowan, Sarah R ^a   Moses, Daniel ^a   Heeger, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction; charge transport; organic solar cells; trap limited hopping

Indexed keywords

BAND EDGE; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CARRIER HOPPING; CARRIER RELAXATION; DELAY TIME; HIGH CONCENTRATION; IMPURITY BANDS; LOCALIZED STATE; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTO-CARRIERS; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; TRAP-LIMITED HOPPING;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CHARGE TRANSFER; HETEROJUNCTIONS; IMPURITIES;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION;

BENZO 1,2,3 THIADIAZOLE; BENZO-1,2,3-THIADIAZOLE; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; POLYMER; THIADIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY;

FULLERENES; POLYMERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY; THIADIAZOLES;

EID: 84860330775     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201104192     Document Type: Article

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