Modeling the influence of doping on the performance of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells: One-dimensional effective semiconductor versus two-dimensional donor/acceptor model

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Stelzl, Felix Florian ^a,b   Würfel, Uli ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

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EID: 84865682675     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.075315     Document Type: Article

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