Thermodynamic effi ciency limit of molecular donor-acceptor solar cells and its application to diindenoperylene/C 60 -based planar heterojunction devices

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1100-1108

  Gruber, Mark ^a   Wagner, Julia ^a   Klein, Konrad ^b   Hörmann, Ulrich ^a   Opitz, Andreas ^a   Stutzmann, Martin ^b   Brütting, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER MATERIAL; ABSORPTION STRENGTH; DETAILED BALANCE; DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT; HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; HOMOJUNCTION; KEY PARAMETERS; NON-RADIATIVE RECOMBINATIONS; OPTICAL GAP; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PARAMETER VALUES; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE TRANSFER; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; UPPER LIMITS;

CHARGE TRANSFER; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SOLAR CELLS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 84867323284     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201200077     Document Type: Article

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