Impact of quantized vibrations on the efficiency of interfacial charge separation in photovoltaic devices

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Bera, Soumya ^a   Gheeraert, Nicolas ^a   Fratini, Simone ^a   Ciuchi, Sergio ^b   Florens, Serge ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

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EID: 84921048025     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.041107     Document Type: Article

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