Contribution of Aggregate States and Energetic Disorder to a Squaraine System Targeted for Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Langmuir

Volumn 31, Issue 28, 2015, Pages 7717-7726

  Zheng, Chenyu ^a,b   Penmetcha, Anirudh Raju ^a   Cona, Brandon ^a   Spencer, Susan D ^b   Zhu, Bi ^a   Heaphy, Patrick ^a   Cody, Jeremy A ^a   Collison, Christopher J ^a,b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Rochester Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ESTERS; EXCITED STATES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PACKAGING;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ORIENTATIONAL DISORDER; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PROCESSING STRATEGIES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 84937622316     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b01045     Document Type: Article

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