Effect of fractal silver electrodes on charge collection and light distribution in semiconducting organic polymer films

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Volumn 2, Issue 39, 2014, Pages 16608-16616

  Chamousis, Rachel L ^a   Chang, Lilian ^b   Watterson, William J ^c   Montgomery, Rick D ^c   Taylor, Richard P ^c   Moule, Adam J ^b   Shaheen, Sean E ^d   Ilan, Boaz ^e   Van De Lagemaat, Jao ^f   Osterloh, Frank E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d UCB 450   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COLLECTION; LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; SILVER ELECTRODE;

EID: 84907802946     PISSN: 20507488     EISSN: 20507496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ta03204g     Document Type: Article

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