Excitons and the lifetime of organic semiconductor devices

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 2044, 2015, Pages

  Forrest, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Degradation; Organic solar cell; PHOLED; Triplets

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; EXCITONS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ELECTROPHOSPHORESCENT; FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS; NON-RADIATIVE RECOMBINATIONS; OPERATIONAL STABILITY; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC (OPV); PHOLED; TRIPLETS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 84992091567     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0320     Document Type: Review

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