Intrinsic burn-in efficiency loss of small-molecule organic photovoltaic cells due to exciton-induced trap formation

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 116-123

  Tong, Xiaoran ^a   Wang, Nana ^a,b   Slootsky, Michael ^a   Yu, Junsheng ^b   Forrest, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Lifetime; Reliability; Small molecule

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONTAMINANTS; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERFACES; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LIFETIME; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SMALL MOLECULES;

AGING OF MATERIALS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DEGRADATION; MOLECULES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RELIABILITY;

EXCITONS;

EID: 84883531704     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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