Effect of polymer crystallinity in p3ht:pcbm solar cells on band gap trap states and apparent recombination order

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 466-471

  Spoltore, Donato ^a   Oosterbaan, Wibren D ^a   Khelifi, Samira ^b   Clifford, John N ^c   Viterisi, Aurelien ^c   Palomares, Emilio ^d   Burgelman, Marc ^b   Lutsen, Laurence ^a   Vanderzande, Dirk ^c   Manca, Jean ^c  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH OF CATALONIA ICIQ   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMITTANCE SPECTROSCOPIES; P3HT CRYSTALLINITY; POLYMER CRYSTALLINITY; POLYMER-FULLERENE; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TRANSIENT PHOTOVOLTAGE; TRAP CONCENTRATION; TRAP-ASSISTED RECOMBINATIONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 84876730591     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201200674     Document Type: Article

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