Dominating recombination mechanisms in organic solar cells based on ZnPc and C60

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 16, 2013, Pages

  Tress, Wolfgang ^a,b   Leo, Karl ^a   Riede, Moritz ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; ILLUMINATION INTENSITY; LIGHT INTENSITY; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; RECOMBINATION MECHANISMS; RECOMBINATION PARAMETERS; TRAP-ASSISTED RECOMBINATIONS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84876957099     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4802276     Document Type: Article

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