Ultrafast electron transfer from low band gap conjugated polymer to quantum dots in hybrid photovoltaic materials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9165, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Couderc, Elsa ^a   Greaney, Matthew J ^a   Thornbury, William ^a   Brutchey, Richard L ^a   Bradforth, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction; charge transfer; chemical doping; ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; ENERGY GAP; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYBRID MATERIALS; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHEMICAL DOPING; LOW BAND GAP CONJUGATED POLYMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES; ULTRAFAST ELECTRON TRANSFER; ULTRAFAST TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84920675553     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2063943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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