Ultrafast studies of exciton migration and polaron formation in sequentially solution-processed conjugated polymer/fullerene quasi-bilayer photovoltaics

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2281-2287

  Ayzner, Alexander L ^a   Doan, Stephanie C ^a   Tremolet De Villers, Bertrand ^a   Schwartz, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CRYSTALLINITIES; EXCITON MIGRATION; NANO-METER-SCALE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLARON FORMATION; POLYMER LAYERS; SEQUENTIAL PROCESSING; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; THERMAL-ANNEALING; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS;

ANNEALING; DYNAMICS; EXCITONS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; POLYMER FILMS; SOLAR CELLS;

POLARONS;

EID: 84865069586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz300762c     Document Type: Article

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