Organic solar cells beyond one pair of donor-acceptor: Ternary blends and more

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1802-1810

  Yang, Liqiang ^a   Yan, Liang ^b   You, Wei ^a,b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT ABSORPTION; SINGLET FISSION;

DONOR ACCEPTORS; EASY FABRICATION; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; EFFICIENCY LIMITS; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; MATERIALS SELECTION; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; UPCONVERSION MATERIALS;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84879217391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz400723u     Document Type: Review

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