Determination of fullerene scattering length density: A critical parameter for understanding the fullerene distribution in bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1410-1415

  Clulow, Andrew J ^a   Armin, Ardalan ^a   Lee, Kwan H ^a   Pandey, Ajay K ^a   Tao, Chen ^a   Velusamy, Marappan ^a   James, Michael ^b,c,d   Nelson, Andrew ^b   Burn, Paul L ^a   Gentle, Ian R ^a   Meredith, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON   (Australia)

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EID: 84894134141     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la403951j     Document Type: Article

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