Exciton annihilation as bimolecular loss in organic solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 15, 2013, Pages

  Tzabari, Lior ^a   Zayats, Victoria ^a   Tessler, Nir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; EXCITON ANNIHILATION; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLY(3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE-2 ,5-DIYL); PROCESSING CONDITION; TRAP-ASSISTED RECOMBINATIONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EXCITONS;

EID: 84886456096     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4825048     Document Type: Article

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