Elucidating operating modes of bulk-heterojunction solar cells from impedance spectroscopy analysis

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 877-886

  Garcia Belmonte, Germà ^a   Guerrero, Antonio ^a   Bisquert, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; CHARGE CARRIER RECOMBINATION; CHEMICAL CAPACITANCE; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFACE EXTRACTION; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

BENCHMARKING; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPY;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84875513900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz302064z     Document Type: Review

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