Probing the effect of relative molecular orientation on the photovoltaic device performance of an organic bilayer heterojunction using soft x-ray spectroscopies

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 26, 2012, Pages

  Cho, S W ^a,d   Demasi, A ^a   Preston, A R H ^a   Smith, K E ^a   Piper, L F J ^b   Chauhan, K V ^c   Jones, T S ^c  

^a USA   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE-DEPENDENT; BI-LAYER; CONJUGATED MOLECULES; EFFECTIVE BAND GAP; ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT; HETERO INTERFACES; ORGANIC BILAYERS; ORGANIC INTERLAYERS; ORGANIC THIN-FILM DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SOFT X-RAY; TILT ANGLE;

COMPOSITE FILMS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; THIN FILM DEVICES; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84863337006     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4731197     Document Type: Article

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