Generalized approach to the description of recombination kinetics in bulk heterojunction solar cells-extending from fully organic to hybrid solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Conings, Bert ^a   Baeten, Linny ^b   Boyen, Hans Gerd ^a,c   Spoltore, Donato ^a   D'Haen, Jan ^a,c   Van Bael, Marlies K ^b,c   Manca, Jean V ^a,c  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; DEVICE PHYSICS; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; ILLUMINATION INTENSITY; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NANOROD ARRAYS; NANOSTRUCTURED METALS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); RECOMBINATION KINETICS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; ZNO NANOROD ARRAYS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; KINETICS; NANORODS; ZINC OXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84861830248     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4714902     Document Type: Article

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