Long-range exciton dissociation in organic solar cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 13498-13502

  Caruso, Domenico ^a   Troisi, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULLERENE; MONOMER; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY RESOURCE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIMULATION;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRONS; FULLERENES; KINETICS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMERS; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 84865293755     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206172109     Document Type: Article

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