Understanding S-shaped current-voltage characteristics in organic solar cells containing a TiO x interlayer with impedance spectroscopy and equivalent circuit analysis

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 116, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 16333-16337

  Ecker, Bernhard ^a   Egelhaaf, Hans Joachim ^b   Steim, Roland ^b   Parisi, Jürgen ^a   Von Hauff, Elizabeth ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b Konarka Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; CELL ARCHITECTURES; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; FILL FACTOR; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; IV CHARACTERISTICS; LIGHT SOAKING; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); S SHAPE; S-SHAPED; TIO; VOLTAGE DEPENDENCE;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; SOLAR CELLS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84865036970     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp305206d     Document Type: Article

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