Potential barrier and excess energy for electron-hole separation from the charge-transfer exciton at donor-acceptor heterojunctions of organic solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 15020-15025

  Tamura, Hiroyuki ^a   Burghardt, Irene ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; CHARGE TRANSFER STATE; DONOR-ACCEPTOR COMPLEX; DONOR-ACCEPTOR HETEROJUNCTIONS; ELECTRON-HOLE SEPARATION; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; FULLERENE MOLECULES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL;

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXCITONS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; SEPARATION; SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 84880826391     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp406224a     Document Type: Article

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