Does excess energy assist photogeneration in an organic low-bandgap solar cell?

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1287-1295

  Hahn, Tobias ^a,b   Geiger, Johannes ^a,b   Blase, Xavier ^c   Duchemin, Ivan ^c   Niedzialek, Dorota ^d   Tscheuschner, Steffen ^a,b   Beljonne, David ^d,e   Bässler, Heinz ^a   Köhler, Anna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC STATES; ELECTRONS; ENERGY GAP; PHOTONS; POLYMERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY;

BILAYER ASSEMBLIES; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; FIELD DEPENDENCE; LOW BANDGAP POLYMERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; QUANTUM CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS; SATURATION FIELDS; VIBRATIONAL ENERGIES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 85027923314     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201403784     Document Type: Article

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