Photoinduced hole transfer becomes suppressed with diminished driving force in polymer-fullerene solar cells while electron transfer remains active

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1238-1249

  Ren, Guoqiang ^a   Schlenker, Cody W ^b   Ahmed, Eilaf ^a   Subramaniyan, Selvam ^a   Olthof, Selina ^c   Kahn, Antoine ^c   Ginger, David S ^b   Jenekhe, Samson A ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

charge photogeneration; charge separation; excitonic solar cells; hole transfer; organic photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

CHARGE PHOTOGENERATION; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; EXCITONIC SOLAR CELLS; HOLE TRANSFER; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS;

BUTYRIC ACID; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; EXCITONS; FULLERENES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLARONS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SEPARATION; SOLAR CELLS;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 84872692154     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201201470     Document Type: Article

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