Quantifying charge transfer energies at donor-acceptor interfaces in small-molecule solar cells with constrained DFTB and spectroscopic methods

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 25, Issue 47, 2013, Pages

  Scholz, Reinhard ^a   Luschtinetz, Regina ^a   Seifert, Gotthard ^a   Jägeler Hoheisel, Till ^a   Körner, Christian ^a   Leo, Karl ^a   Rapacioli, Mathias ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURATION INTERACTIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL TIGHT BINDINGS; DONOR-ACCEPTOR COMBINATIONS; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERFACES; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; POLYMER-FULLERENE BLENDS; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

CHARGE TRANSFER; FULLERENES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMER BLENDS; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 84887076115     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/25/47/473201     Document Type: Review

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