Simulations of exciton diffusion and trapping in semicrystalline morphologies of poly(3-hexylthiophene)

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5756-5761

  Bjorgaard, Josiah A ^a   Köse, Muhammet E ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE DOMAINS; EXCITON DIFFUSION LENGTH; EXCITONIC COUPLING; MULTI-SCALE SIMULATION METHOD; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC OPERATION; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; TRAPPING PROBABILITIES;

CARRIER MOBILITY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIFFUSION; MORPHOLOGY;

EXCITONS;

EID: 84897842498     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp501513a     Document Type: Article

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