DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201103118. Charge Density Dependent Nongeminate Recombination in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

Charge Density Dependent Nongeminate Recombination in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

10.1002/adfm.201103118

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Advanced Functional Materials (311)

Abstract

AbstractApparent recombination orders exceeding the value of two expected for bimolecular recombination have been reported for organic solar cells in various publications. Two prominent explanations are bimolecular losses with a carrier concentration dependent prefactor due to a trapping limited mobility and protection of trapped charge carriers from recombination by a donor–acceptor phase separation until re‐emission from these deep states. In order to clarify which mechanism is dominant temperature‐ and illumination‐dependent charge extraction measurements are performed under open circuit and short circuit conditions at poly(3‐hexylthiophene‐2,5‐diyl):[6,6]‐phenyl‐C61 butyric acid methyl ester (P3HT:PC61BM) and PTB7:PC71BM (poly[[4,8‐bis[(2‐ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2‐b:4,5‐b′]dithiophene‐2,6‐diyl][3‐fluoro‐2‐[(2‐ethylhexyl)carbonyl]thieno[3,4‐b]thiophenediyl]]) solar cells in combination with current–voltage characteristics. It is shown that the charge carrier density n dependence of the mobility μ and the recombination prefactor are different for P3HT:PC61BM at temperatures below 300 K and PTB7:PC71BM at room temperature. Therefore, in addition to μ(n), a detrapping limited recombination in systems with at least partial donor–acceptor phase separation is required to explain the high recombination orders.

Bibliography

Rauh, D., Deibel, C., & Dyakonov, V. (2012). Charge Density Dependent Nongeminate Recombination in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials, 22(16), 3371â3377. Portico.

Authors 3

Daniel Rauh (first)
Carsten Deibel (additional)
Vladimir Dyakonov (additional)

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Type	When
Created	13 years, 3 months ago (May 18, 2012, 4:18 a.m.)
Deposited	1 year, 10 months ago (Oct. 10, 2023, 11:55 p.m.)
Indexed	1 week ago (Aug. 28, 2025, 8:04 a.m.)
Issued	13 years, 3 months ago (May 18, 2012)
Published	13 years, 3 months ago (May 18, 2012)
Published Online	13 years, 3 months ago (May 18, 2012)
Published Print	13 years ago (Aug. 21, 2012)

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BibTeX

@article{Rauh_2012, title={Charge Density Dependent Nongeminate Recombination in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells}, volume={22}, ISSN={1616-3028}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201103118}, DOI={10.1002/adfm.201103118}, number={16}, journal={Advanced Functional Materials}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Rauh, Daniel and Deibel, Carsten and Dyakonov, Vladimir}, year={2012}, month=may, pages={3371–3377} }

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