Molecular packing in organic solar cell materials: Insights from the emission line shapes of P3HT/PCBM polymer blend nanoparticles

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 34, 2014, Pages 19975-19984

  Crotty, Angela M ^a   Gizzi, Alicia N ^a,d   Rivera Jacquez, Hector J ^a   Masunov, Artëm E ^a,b   Hu, Zhongjian ^a   Geldmeier, Jeff A ^a,c   Gesquiere, Andre J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^d CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; BLENDING; CHAINS; COMPUTATION THEORY; EXCITED STATES; GROUND STATE; SOLAR CELLS;

ACTIVE DEVICE LAYERS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY METHODS; GROUND STATE GEOMETRY; NANO-SIZED PARTICLES; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; VIBRONIC PROGRESSIONS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION DATA;

CHAINS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84906861092     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5040932     Document Type: Article

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