The impact of molecular orientation on the photovoltaic properties of a phthalocyanine/fullerene heterojunction

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2987-2995

  Rand, Barry P ^a   Cheyns, David ^a   Vasseur, Karolien ^a   Giebink, Noel C ^b   Mothy, Sébastien ^c   Yi, Yuanping ^d   Coropceanu, Veaceslav ^d   Beljonne, David ^c   Cornil, Jérôme ^c   Brédas, Jean Luc ^d   Genoe, Jan ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

charge transfer; copper iodide; molecular orientation; photovoltaic devices; planar heterojunctions; structural templating

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; COPPER IODIDE; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; DONOR/ACCEPTOR INTERFACE; EXCITON TRANSPORT; HIGH SENSITIVITY; IN-DEPTH STUDY; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; ORGANIC MOLECULES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; ORIENTATION OF MOLECULES; PHOTOCURRENT MEASUREMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY CONVERSION; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL PARAMETERS; STANDING-UP; TEMPLATING; ZINC PHTHALOCYANINES;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULES; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84863958645     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201200512     Document Type: Article

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