A quantitative study of the formation of PCBM clusters upon thermal annealing of P3HT/PCBM bulk heterojunction solar cell

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 117, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-8

  Oklobia, O ^a   Shafai, T S ^a  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exciton generation rates; Morphology; Optical absorption; Organic photovoltaics; Raman mapping; Thermal annealing strategy

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING STRATEGIES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; EXCITON GENERATION; NON-RADIATIVE RECOMBINATIONS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SIGNALS; RAMAN MAPPING; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

EXCITONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MORPHOLOGY;

ANNEALING;

EID: 84878856115     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.05.011     Document Type: Article

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