Determination of the intrinsic and the injection dependent charge carrier density in organic solar cells using the Suns-VOCmethod

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Schiefer, Sebastian ^a,b   Zimmermann, Birger ^a   Würfel, Uli ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT; MOBILE CHARGE CARRIERS; OPEN CIRCUIT CONDITIONS; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; QUASI-FERMI LEVEL; SERIES RESISTANCES; SPATIALLY HOMOGENEOUS; TRANSPORT RESISTANCE;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84905008189     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4862960     Document Type: Article

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