Optoelectronic properties of conjugated polymer/fullerene binary pairs with variety of LUMO level differences

Organic Photovoltaics: Mechanisms, Materials, and Devices

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 529-557

  Sensfuss, Steffi ^a   Al Ibrahim, Maher ^a  

^a Thuringian Institute for Textile and Plastics Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absorption coefficient; Conjugated polymers; Donor acceptor polymer solar cells; Fullerene; HOMO LUMO levels; Light induced electron spin resonance (LESR); Optoelectronic properties; Photoinduced electron transfer; Photoluminescence

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROSPINNING; FULLERENES; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; QUENCHING; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; DONOR-ACCEPTOR POLYMERS; HOMO-LUMO; LIGHT-INDUCED; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHOTO-INDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85051815802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420026351     Document Type: Chapter

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