Ambipolar charge photogeneration and transfer at GaAs/P3HT heterointerfaces

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1144-1150

  Panahandeh Fard, Majid ^a   Yin, Jun ^a   Kurniawan, Michael ^a   Wang, Zilong ^a,b   Leung, Gle ^a   Sum, Tze Chien ^a   Soci, Cesare ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

charge photogeneration; conjugated polymers; density functional theory (DFT); III V semiconductors; organic inorganic charge transfer systems; ultrafast transient spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHARGE PHOTOGENERATION; HYBRID PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; II-IV SEMICONDUCTORS; III-V COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR; ORGANIC-INORGANIC; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE GENERATION; TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; NANOWIRES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 84898061152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz500332z     Document Type: Article

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