Balanced charge carrier mobilities in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Abbas, Mamatimin ^a,b   Tekin, Nalan ^c  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIPOLAR; BALANCED ELECTRONS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SOLUTION-PROCESSED;

CARRIER MOBILITY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84865416092     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4745602     Document Type: Article

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