Impacts of side chain and excess energy on the charge photogeneration dynamics of low-bandgap copolymer-fullerene blends

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Huo, Ming Ming ^a,b   Hu, Rong ^b   Xing, Ya Dong ^b   Liu, Yu Chen ^b   Ai, Xi Cheng ^b   Zhang, Jian Ping ^a,b   Hou, Jian Hui ^c  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DISSOCIATION; EXCITONS; FLUORESCENCE; FULLERENES; INFRARED DEVICES; PHOTONS; QUENCHING;

CHARGE PHOTOGENERATION; CHARGE-SEPARATED STATE; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELD; INTERFACIAL CHARGE TRANSFER; LOW BAND-GAP COPOLYMERS; THIENO[3 ,4-B]THIOPHENE; TIME-RESOLVED ABSORPTION;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84896766114     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4866177     Document Type: Article

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