Photodegradation of small-molecule organic photovoltaics

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 125, Issue , 2014, Pages 170-175

  Wang, Nana ^a,b   Tong, Xiaoran ^a   Burlingame, Quinn ^a   Yu, Junsheng ^b   Forrest, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Photo dimerization; Photobleaching; Reliability

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULES; PHOTOBLEACHING; RELIABILITY;

EXCITON LIFETIME; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA REDS; INERT ATMOSPHERES; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC (OPV); ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTODIMERIZATION; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES;

DIMERIZATION;

EID: 84897034319     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.03.005     Document Type: Article

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