Achieving fill factor above 80% in organic solar cells by charged interface

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 310-317

  Ray, Biswajit ^a   Alam, Muhammad Ashraful ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction (BHJ); fill factor (FF); interfacial charge recombination; organic photovoltaic (OPV) cell

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE COLLECTION; CHARGE LOSS; CHARGED INTERFACES; DEVICE SIMULATIONS; DEVICE STRUCTURES; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERFACES; FILL FACTOR; FIXED CHARGE DENSITY; FIXED CHARGES; FREE CARRIER RECOMBINATION; INTERFACIAL CHARGE; LOW-MOBILITY; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PERFORMANCE GAIN; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; POLYMER INTERFACES;

CHARGED PARTICLES; HETEROJUNCTIONS;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84871806617     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2012.2216508     Document Type: Article

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