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Merocyanine/C60 Planar Heterojunction Solar Cells: Effect of Dye Orientation on Exciton Dissociation and Solar Cell Performance

  1. Antti Ojala1,2,
  2. Andreas Petersen3,
  3. Andreas Fuchs2,
  4. Robert Lovrincic4,†,
  5. Carl Pölking4,
  6. Jens Trollmann4,
  7. Jaehyung Hwang2,
  8. Christian Lennartz2,
  9. Helmut Reichelt2,
  10. Hans Wolfgang Höffken2,
  11. Annemarie Pucci4,
  12. Peter Erk2,
  13. Thomas Kirchartz5,
  14. Frank Würthner1,*

Article first published online: 31 OCT 2011

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201101697

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Advanced Functional Materials

Advanced Functional Materials

Volume 22, Issue 1, pages 86–96, January 11, 2012

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Ojala, A., Petersen, A., Fuchs, A., Lovrincic, R., Pölking, C., Trollmann, J., Hwang, J., Lennartz, C., Reichelt, H., Höffken, H. W., Pucci, A., Erk, P., Kirchartz, T. and Würthner, F. (2012), Merocyanine/C60 Planar Heterojunction Solar Cells: Effect of Dye Orientation on Exciton Dissociation and Solar Cell Performance. Adv. Funct. Mater., 22: 86–96. doi: 10.1002/adfm.201101697

Author Information

  1. 1

    Institut für Organische Chemie and Röntgen Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany

  2. 2

    BASF SE, Carl-Bosch-Straße 38, 67056 Ludwigshafen, Germany

  3. 3

    Robert Bosch GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Platz 1, 70839 Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe, Germany

  4. 4

    Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik der Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 227, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

  5. 5

    Blackett Laboratory of Physics, Imperial College, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK

  1. †

    Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel

*Institut für Organische Chemie and Röntgen Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 2 JAN 2012
  2. Article first published online: 31 OCT 2011
  3. Manuscript Received: 22 JUL 2011

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