Acceptor properties of boron subphthalocyanines in fullerene free photovoltaics

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 27, 2014, Pages 14813-14823

  Beaumont, Nicola ^a   Castrucci, Jeffrey S ^b   Sullivan, Paul ^a   Morse, Graham E ^b   Paton, Andrew S ^b   Lu, Zheng Hong ^b   Bender, Timothy P ^b   Jones, Tim S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ACCEPTOR PROPERTIES; ELECTRON DONORS; ELECTRON-ACCEPTING; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SMALL-MOLECULE ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; SUBPHTHALOCYANINES;

BORON;

EID: 84904292581     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp503578g     Document Type: Article

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