Correlation between the open circuit voltage and the energetics of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 3865-3871

  Lange, Ilja ^a   Kniepert, Juliane ^a   Pingel, Patrick ^a   Dumsch, Ines ^b   Allard, Sybille ^b   Janietz, Silvia ^c   Scherf, Ullrich ^b   Neher, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

DOS; HOMO; ICBA; LUMO; P3HT; PCBM; PCPDTBT; polymer solar cells

Indexed keywords

HOMO; ICBA; LUMO; P3HT; PCBM; PCPDTBT; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS;

DOS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SOLAR CELLS;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 84888330702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz401971e     Document Type: Article

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