Excitation of charge transfer states and low-driving force triplet exciton dissociation at planar donor/acceptor interfaces

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 2064-2068

  Piersimoni, Fortunato ^a   Cheyns, David ^b   Vandewal, Koen ^a,c   Manca, Jean V ^a   Rand, Barry P ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILAYER SYSTEMS; CHARGE TRANSFER STATE; DIRECT CHARGE; DONOR/ACCEPTOR INTERFACE; DRIVING FORCES; EXCITON DIFFUSION LENGTH; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HOT CHARGE; INTERFACE DIPOLE; INTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELDS; LOW MOBILITY; PERYLENE DERIVATIVES; PERYLENES; POLARIZATION EFFECT; SINGLET EXCITONS; TRIPLET ENERGY; TRIPLET EXCITONS;

CHARGE TRANSFER; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXCITED STATES; EXCITONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 84864778325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz300771a     Document Type: Article

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