Role of Polymer Fractionation in Energetic Losses and Charge Carrier Lifetimes of Polymer: Fullerene Solar Cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 34, 2015, Pages 19668-19673

  Baran, Derya ^a,b   Vezie, Michelle S ^b   Gasparini, Nicola ^a   Deledalle, Florent ^b   Yao, Jizhong ^b   Schroeder, Bob C ^b,f   Bronstein, Hugo ^b,g   Ameri, Tayebeh ^a   Kirchartz, Thomas ^c,d   McCulloch, Iain ^b,h   Nelson, Jenny ^b   Brabec, Christoph J ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^e BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

^f Stanford University   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER LIFETIME; CHARGE CARRIERS; FULLERENES; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; POLYMERS;

DIFFERENTIAL CHARGING; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE EMISSION; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; LUMINESCENCE EMISSION; NON-RADIATIVE RECOMBINATIONS; POLYMER FRACTIONATION; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; TRANSIENT PHOTOVOLTAGE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84940481967     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b05709     Document Type: Article

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