Dynamics of Charge Generation and Transport in Polymer-Fullerene Blends Elucidated Using a PhotoFET Architecture

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 114-120

  Pandey, Ajay K ^a   Aljada, Muhsen ^a   Pivrikas, Almantas ^a   Velusamy, Marappan ^a   Burn, Paul L ^a   Meredith, Paul ^a   Namdas, Ebinazar B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

channel II photocurrent; PCDTBT; photoFET; polymer solar cells; quantum efficiency

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; BUTYRIC ACID; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LOADING; PHOTOCURRENTS; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FULLERENE CONTENT; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; PCDTBT; PHOTOFET; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMER-FULLERENE BLENDS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84906085319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph400047b     Document Type: Article

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