Applicability of the suns-VOC method on organic solar cells

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 271-277

  Schiefer, Sebastian ^a,b   Zimmermann, Birger ^a   Glunz, Stefan W ^a   Würfel, Uli ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Organic solar cells; Recombination; Series resistance; Suns VOC; Transport resistance

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; RECOMBINATION; SERIES RESISTANCES; SUNS-VOC; TRANSPORT RESISTANCE;

CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84891625988     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2288527     Document Type: Article

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