Graphene nanoribbons as low band gap donor materials for organic photovoltaics: Quantum chemical aided design

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 5539-5548

  Osella, Silvio ^a   Narita, Akimitsu ^c   Schwab, Matthias Georg ^b   Hernandez, Yenny ^c   Feng, Xinliang ^c   Müllen, Klaus ^c   Beljonne, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

band gap; density functional theory; graphene nanoribbon; organic photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; EDGE STRUCTURES; ELECTRONIC LEVELS; EXCHANGE ENERGY; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; LATERAL CONFINEMENT; LOW BAND GAP; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; QUANTUM CHEMICAL; SINGLET-TRIPLET; SOLAR LIGHT; TIME-DEPENDENT;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY GAP; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; POWER SUPPLY; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84862874863     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301478c     Document Type: Article

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