Charge Recombination Suppressed by Destructive Quantum Interference in Heterojunction Materials

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 198-203

  Tempelaar, Roel ^a   Koster, L Jan Anton ^a   Havenith, Remco W A ^a,b,c   Knoester, Jasper ^a   Jansen, Thomas L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bimolecular recombination; Langevin theory; organic photovoltaics; quantum coherence

Indexed keywords

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; QUANTUM THEORY;

BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION; CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERFACES; LANGEVIN THEORY; ORGANIC BULK HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84954060494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02580     Document Type: Article

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