17 September 2018Charge losses in bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells on nanosecond timescale and the role of charge transfer states (Conference Presentation)
Stoichko D. Dimitrov,1 James Durrant,2 Iain McCulloch,3 Bob Schroeder4
1Swansea Univ. (United Kingdom) 2Imperial College London (United Kingdom) 3King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia) 4Univ. College London (United Kingdom)
PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.
Electron-hole recombination determines photocurrent generation yields in polymer:fullerene blends, but the nature of this process and its timescales are not completely understood. In this study, we use a combination of spectroscopy techniques to probe how film structure and interface energetics control the charge generation and recombination dynamics in several polymer:fullerene blends. By varying film composition and comparing between different LUMO-LUMO offset systems, we identify geminate electron-hole recombination on the nanosecond timescale only in the blends consisting of finely-intermixed polymer:fullerene phases and low LUMO-LUMO offsets, whereas the formation of pure fullerene phases leads to the suppression of the geminate recombination process. Charge transfer state photoluminescence and electroluminescence data show similar dependencies confirming that geminate electron-hole recombination is controlled by interfacial enthalpic energy offsets and the density ratio between pure-fullerene and intermixed polymer-fullerene phases. Our results also indicate that electron-hole association probed with electroluminescence and photoluminescence derives from different interfaces playing distinct roles in the photocurrent generation process.
Stoichko D. Dimitrov,James Durrant,Iain McCulloch, andBob Schroeder
"Charge losses in bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells on nanosecond timescale and the role of charge transfer states (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10724, Physical Chemistry of Semiconductor Materials and Interfaces XVII, 107240O (17 September 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2319932
ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE
INSTITUTIONAL Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.
PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.
The alert did not successfully save. Please try again later.
Stoichko D. Dimitrov, James Durrant, Iain McCulloch, Bob Schroeder, "Charge losses in bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells on nanosecond timescale and the role of charge transfer states (Conference Presentation)," Proc. SPIE 10724, Physical Chemistry of Semiconductor Materials and Interfaces XVII, 107240O (17 September 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2319932