Recombination in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells: Small dependence of interfacial charge transfer kinetics on fullerene affinity

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1386-1392

  Guerrero, Antonio ^a   Marchesi, Luis F ^a,b   Boix, Pablo P ^a   Bisquert, Juan ^a   Garcia Belmonte, Germa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY OF STATE; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFACIAL CHARGE TRANSFER; KINETIC RATES; LUMO ENERGY; MARCUS THEORY; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; RECOMBINATION KINETICS; RECOMBINATION RATE; REORGANIZATION ENERGIES;

CHARGE TRANSFER; HETEROJUNCTIONS; KINETICS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

FULLERENES;

EID: 84862058355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz3003958     Document Type: Article

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