Charge carrier mobility of the organic photovoltaic materials PTB7 and PC71BM and its influence on device performance

Organic Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue , 2015, Pages 62-68

  Ebenhoch, Bernd ^a   Thomson, Stuart A J ^a   Genevičius, Kristijonas ^b   Juška, Gytis ^b   Samuel, Ifor D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Bimolecular recombination; Efficiency; Temperature; Time of flight; Trap assisted recombination

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; TEMPERATURE;

BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION; ELECTRIC FIELD DEPENDENCE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-OF-FLIGHT TECHNIQUES; TRAP-ASSISTED RECOMBINATIONS;

HOLE MOBILITY;

EID: 84961291212     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2015.03.013     Document Type: Article

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