Ligand exchange and photoluminescence quenching in organic-inorganic blends poly(3-hexylthiophene) P3HT:PbS

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8438, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Firdaus, Yuliar ^a   Khetubol, Adis ^a   Kudret, Suleyman ^b   Diliën, Hanne ^b   Maes, Wouter ^b   Lutsen, Laurence ^c   Vanderzande, Dirk ^b   Van Der Auweraer, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UHasselt   (Belgium)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ligand exchange; PbS QDs; Photoluminescence quenching; Poly(3 hexylthiophene)

Indexed keywords

BUTYLAMINES; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; HEXANOIC ACIDS; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; INSULATING LAYERS; LIGAND EXCHANGES; LONG ALKYL CHAINS; NANODOTS; OCTYLAMINES; ORGANIC-INORGANIC; PBS QDS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POST-FABRICATION; POSTSYNTHESIS; QUENCHING EFFICIENCY; REGIOREGULARITY; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

ACETIC ACID; BLENDING; CARRIER MOBILITY; CHAIN LENGTH; CHARGE TRANSFER; CHELATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; OLEIC ACID; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUENCHING; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

LIGANDS;

EID: 84861947948     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.922347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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