Intensity and wavelength dependence of bimolecular recombination in P3HT:PCBM solar cells: A white-light biased external quantum efficiency study

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 15, 2013, Pages

  Cowan, Sarah R ^a   Wang, Jian ^b   Yi, Juan ^c   Lee, Yun Ju ^b   Olson, Dana C ^a   Hsu, Julia W P ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION; BULK-HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE CARRIERS; RECOMBINATION MECHANISMS; RECOMBINATION PARAMETERS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTONS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84884320037     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4801920     Document Type: Article

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