Virtual screening of electron acceptor materials for organic photovoltaic applications

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  D Halls, Mathew ^a   Djurovich, Peter J ^b   Giesen, David J ^a   Goldberg, Alexander ^a   Sommer, Jonathan ^b   McAnally, Eric ^b   Thompson, Mark E ^b  

^a SCHRÖDINGER INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR MATERIALS; MOLECULAR FRAMEWORKS; MOLECULAR PROPERTIES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; REORGANIZATION ENERGIES; STRUCTURE PROPERTY;

CHARACTERIZATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; MATERIALS TESTING; NITROGEN; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84887451056     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/10/105029     Document Type: Article

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