Eliminating RC-effects in transient photocurrent measurements on organic photodiodes

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 682-685

  Kettlitz, Siegfried W ^a   Mescher, Jan ^a   Christ, Nico S ^a   Nintz, Mirco ^a,b   Valouch, Sebastian ^a   Colsmann, Alexander ^a   Lemmer, Uli ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Organic photodiode; Signal restoration; Transient response

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CONDUCTION CURRENT; ORGANIC PHOTODIODES; SERIAL RESISTANCE; SIGNAL RESTORATION; SIMULATION DATA; TRANSIENT PHOTOCURRENTS; TRANSPORT PARAMETERS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

POWER QUALITY;

EID: 84897583666     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2247036     Document Type: Article

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