Three-dimensional optoelectronic model for organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 84-92

  Koh, Wee Shing ^a   Pant, Mihir ^b   Akimov, Yuriy A ^a   Goh, Wei Peng ^c   Li, Yuning ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; optoelectronic devices; organic semiconductors; photovoltaic cells; thin film devices

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; DEVICE MODELS; ELECTRICAL SIMULATION; FREE PARAMETERS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; METHYL ESTERS; MULTIPLE FITTING; OPTICAL SIMULATION; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SILVER NANOPARTICLE ARRAY; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84865173733     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2011.2163620     Document Type: Article

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