Open circuit voltage decay transients and recombination in bulk-heterojunction solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 20, 2014, Pages

  Sudheendra Rao, K ^a   Mohapatra, Y N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; TRANSIENTS;

BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; DIODE IDEALITY FACTORS; EXCESS CARRIER CONCENTRATION; INTENSITY DEPENDENCE; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE DECAYS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLY(3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE-2 ,5-DIYL); RECOMBINATION CURRENTS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84901404820     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4879278     Document Type: Article

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