Impact of nongeminate recombination on the performance of pristine and annealed P3HT:PCBM solar cells

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 337-339

  Gluecker, Markus ^a   Foertig, Alexander ^a   Dyakonov, Vladimir ^a,b   Deibel, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charge carrier recombination; Charge extraction; Conjugated polymers; Fullerenes; Organic solar cells; Transient photovoltage

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CHARGE CARRIER DECAY; CHARGE CARRIER RECOMBINATION; CHARGE EXTRACTION; CHARGE PHOTOGENERATION; LOSS CURRENTS; METHYL ESTERS; OPEN CIRCUIT CONDITIONS; OPERATIONAL RANGE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTO-VOLTAGE; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; TEMPERATURE RANGE; VOLTAGE RANGES;

ANNEALING; CHARGE CARRIERS; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; DECAY (ORGANIC); FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SOLAR CELLS; THIOPHENE;

POWER QUALITY;

EID: 84865300142     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201206248     Document Type: Article

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