Optical properties of low bandgap copolymer PTB7 for organic photovoltaic applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9165, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Huynh, Uyen ^a   Basel, Tek ^a   Xu, Tao ^b   Lu, Luyao ^b   Zheng, Tianyue ^b   Yu, Luping ^b   Vardeny, Valy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Magneto PA; Magneto PL; Photoinduced absorption (PA); Photoluminescence (PL); PTB7 copolymer

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; BLENDING; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; COPOLYMERS; ENERGY GAP; EXCITONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOEXCITATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

CONJUGATED COPOLYMERS; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERFACES; EXCITON-BINDING ENERGY; LOW BAND-GAP COPOLYMERS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOINDUCED ABSORPTION; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84922713833     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2064083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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