Charge photogeneration in donor/acceptor organic solar cells

Journal of Photonics for Energy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Shoaee, Safa ^a   Clarke, Tracey M ^a   Eng, Mattias P ^a   Huang, Chun ^b   Barlow, Stephen ^b   Espíldora, Eva ^e   Delgado, Juan Luis ^e,f   Campo, Bert ^g   Marder, Seth R ^b   Heeney, Martin ^c,d   McCulloch, Iain ^a,c   Martín, Nazario ^e,f   Vanderzande, Dirk ^g   Durrant, James R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Merck Chemicals   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

^g Division Chemistry   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Charge photogeneration; Energy for charge separation; Nanomorphology

Indexed keywords

CHARGE PHOTOGENERATION; CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; INTERFACIAL ENERGETICS; NANOMORPHOLOGIES; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; RECOMBINATION DYNAMICS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION DATA;

ORGANIC POLYMERS; SEPARATION;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84896693112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19477988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JPE.2.021001     Document Type: Article

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