Effects of impurities on operational mechanism of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

Advanced Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1706-1712

  Kaake, Loren ^a   Dang, Xuan Dung ^a   Leong, Wei Lin ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^a   Heeger, Alan ^a   Nguyen, Thuc Quyen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

charge generation and recombination; charge transfer states; impurities; open circuit voltages; organic solar cells

Indexed keywords

CHARGE GENERATION; CHARGE TRANSFER STATE; EFFECTS OF IMPURITIES; LOW BAND GAP CONJUGATED POLYMERS; OPERATIONAL MECHANISM; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHARGE TRANSFER; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SOLAR CELLS;

IMPURITIES;

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; NITRILE; TETRACYANOQUINODIMETHANE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; FULLERENES; NITRILES; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84875144952     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201203786     Document Type: Article

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