Liquid-crystal approaches to organic photovoltaics

Organic Photovoltaics: Mechanisms, Materials, and Devices

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 271-298

  Kippelen, Bernard ^a   Yoo, Seunghyup ^a   Haddock, Joshua A ^a   Domercq, Benoit ^a   Barlow, Stephen ^b   Minch, Britt ^c   Xia, Wei ^c   Marder, Seth R ^b   Armstrong, Neal R ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Calamitic; Child s law; Cholesteric; Clearing temperature; Columnar discotic; Conductivity; Cross linking; Discostic; Disorder formalism; Dispersive transport; Energetic disorder; Field effect transistor; Grain boundaries; Liquid crystal; Lyotropic; Mesophase; Mobility; Mobility pre factor; Nematic; Nematic discotic; Order parameter; Phase; Phase transition; Positional disorder; Pulsed radiolysis time resolved microwave; Smectic; Space charge limited current; Thermotropic; Time of flight; Transition temperature

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FILMS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RADIATION CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

CALAMITICS; CHOLESTERIC; CLEARING TEMPERATURE; DISCOSTIC; DISCOTICS; DISORDER FORMALISM; DISPERSIVE TRANSPORT; ENERGETIC DISORDER; LYOTROPICS; MESOPHASES; NEMATIC; ORDER PARAMETER; PHASE; POSITIONAL DISORDER; SMECTIC; SPACE CHARGE LIMITED CURRENTS; THERMOTROPIC; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-RESOLVED;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 85051800977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420026351     Document Type: Chapter

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