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Decoding Charge Recombination through Charge Generation in Organic Solar Cells
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Ardalan Armin ,
Martin Stolterfoht,
Seyed Mehrdad Hosseini,
Jona Kurpiers,
Dieter Neher
Solar RRL, Volume: 3, Issue: 11, Start page: 1900184
Swansea University Author:
Ardalan Armin
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DOI (Published version): 10.1002/solr.201900184
Abstract
The in‐depth understanding of charge carrier photogeneration and recombination mechanisms in organic solar cells is still an ongoing effort. In donor:acceptor (bulk) heterojunction organic solar cells, charge photogeneration and recombination are inter‐related via the kinetics of charge transfer sta...
| Published in: | Solar RRL |
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| ISSN: | 2367-198X 2367-198X |
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Wiley
2019
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52737 |
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The in‐depth understanding of charge carrier photogeneration and recombination mechanisms in organic solar cells is still an ongoing effort. In donor:acceptor (bulk) heterojunction organic solar cells, charge photogeneration and recombination are inter‐related via the kinetics of charge transfer states—being singlet or triplet states. Although high‐charge‐photogeneration quantum yields are achieved in many donor:acceptor systems, only very few systems show significantly reduced bimolecular recombination relative to the rate of free carrier encounters, in low‐mobility systems. This is a serious limitation for the industrialization of organic solar cells, in particular when aiming at thick active layers. Herein, a meta‐analysis of the device performance of numerous bulk heterojunction organic solar cells is presented for which field‐dependent photogeneration, charge carrier mobility, and fill factor are determined. Herein, a “spin‐related factor” that is dependent on the ratio of back electron transfer of the triplet charge transfer (CT) states to the decay rate of the singlet CT states is introduced. It is shown that this factor links the recombination reduction factor to charge‐generation efficiency. As a consequence, it is only in the systems with very efficient charge generation and very fast CT dissociation that free carrier recombination is strongly suppressed, regardless of the spin‐related factor. |
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| Keywords: |
charge generation; charge transfers; non-Langevin recombination; spin-related factors |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
| Funders: |
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
European Regional Development Fund |
| Issue: |
11 |
| Start Page: |
1900184 |