Monte Carlo simulations of charge transport in 2D organic photovoltaics

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 36-42

  Gagorik, Adam G ^a   Mohin, Jacob W ^b   Kowalewski, Tomasz ^b   Hutchison, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED DEFECTS; COULOMBIC BARRIER; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DOMAIN SIZE; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERFACES; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON DONORS; FILL FACTOR; ISOTROPIC MORPHOLOGY; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS;

AGGREGATES; COULOMB INTERACTIONS; EXCITONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MORPHOLOGY; SEPARATION;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84872174168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz3016292     Document Type: Article

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