Polymer-Polymer Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Significantly Boosts the Power Conversion Efficiency of Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells

Advanced Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 30, 2015, Pages 4398-4404

  Gupta, Vinay ^a,b   Bharti, Vishal ^a   Kumar, Mahesh ^a   Chand, Suresh ^a   Heeger, Alan J ^b  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction solar cells; energy transfer; polymers; power conversion efficiency; transient spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY TRANSFER; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMERS;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMER SYSTEMS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84938739328     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201501275     Document Type: Article

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