Bimolecular recombination in organic photovoltaics

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 557-581

  Lakhwani, Girish ^a   Rao, Akshay ^a   Friend, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction; charges; conjugated polymer; fullerene; Langevin

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; LANGEVIN; LOSS MECHANISMS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PERFORMANCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; LIGHT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ELECTRONICS; ELECTRONS; FULLERENES; LIGHT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84897506650     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040513-103615     Document Type: Article

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