Empirically based device modeling of bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaics

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 15, 2013, Pages

  Pierre, Adrien ^a   Lu, Shaofeng ^b   Howard, Ian A ^c   Facchetti, Antonio ^b   Arias, Ana Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b POLYERA CORPORATION   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION COEFFICIENT; FREE CARRIER RECOMBINATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE DEVICES; OPTO-ELECTRONIC MODELING; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RECOMBINATION COEFFICIENT; SPACE-CHARGE-LIMITED CURRENT;

OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84884314182     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4801662     Document Type: Article

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34. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4801662 E-JAPIAU-113-001316 for TEM tomography images, XRD images, and optical constants. The matlab program of our model is open source and available at http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/ under the file name Bulk Heterojunction Device Model or from the Ana Claudia Arias research group homepage.