Femtosecond spectroscopic study of photoinduced charge separation and recombination in the donor-acceptor co-oligomers for solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4836-4843

  Gao, Bing Rong ^a,b   Qu, Jian Fei ^a   Wang, Yan ^b   Fu, Ying Ying ^a   Wang, Lei ^b   Chen, Qi Dai ^b   Sun, Hong Bo ^b   Geng, Yan Hou ^a   Wang, Hai Yu ^b   Xie, Zhi Yuan ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER STATE; CHARGE TRANSPORT PROCESS; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE SEPARATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; RECOMBINATION PROCESS; SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE;

CHARGE TRANSFER; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

OLIGOMERS;

EID: 84874847394     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp3106925     Document Type: Article

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