Charge Generation Pathways in Organic Solar Cells: Assessing the Contribution from the Electron Acceptor

Chemical Reviews

Volumn 116, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 12920-12955

  Stoltzfus, Dani M ^a   Donaghey, Jenny E ^a   Armin, Ardalan ^a   Shaw, Paul E ^a   Burn, Paul L ^a   Meredith, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON AFFINITY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOEXCITATION;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; ORGANIC BULK HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTO-INDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER; PHOTOCURRENT GENERATIONS; SPECTRAL SEPARATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84994493595     PISSN: 00092665     EISSN: 15206890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00126     Document Type: Review

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