Field-dependent exciton dissociation in organic heterojunction solar cells

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Petersen, Andreas ^a   Ojala, Antti ^b   Kirchartz, Thomas ^c   Wagner, Thomas A ^a   Würthner, Frank ^d   Rau, Uwe ^e  

^a ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

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EID: 84863303801     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.245208     Document Type: Article

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