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Unified Study of Recombination in Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells Using Transient Absorption and Charge-Extraction Measurements

Andersson, Mattias LU ; Melianas, Armantas ; Infahsaeng, Yingyot LU ; Tang, Zheng ; Yartsev, Arkady LU orcid ; Inganas, Olle and Sundström, Villy LU (2013) In The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 4(12). p.2069-2072
Abstract
Recombination in the well-performing bulk heterojunction solar cell blend between the conjugated polymer TQ-1 and the substituted fullerene PCBM has been investigated with pump-probe transient absorption and charge extraction of photo-generated carriers (photo-CELIV). Both methods are shown to generate identical and overlapping data under appropriate experimental conditions. The dominant type of recombination is bimolecular with a rate constant of 7 x 10(-12) cm(-3) s(-1). This recombination rate is shown to be fully consistent with solar cell performance. Deviations from an ideal bimolecular recombination process, in this material system only observable at high pump fluences, are explained with a time-dependent charge-carrier mobility,... (More)
Recombination in the well-performing bulk heterojunction solar cell blend between the conjugated polymer TQ-1 and the substituted fullerene PCBM has been investigated with pump-probe transient absorption and charge extraction of photo-generated carriers (photo-CELIV). Both methods are shown to generate identical and overlapping data under appropriate experimental conditions. The dominant type of recombination is bimolecular with a rate constant of 7 x 10(-12) cm(-3) s(-1). This recombination rate is shown to be fully consistent with solar cell performance. Deviations from an ideal bimolecular recombination process, in this material system only observable at high pump fluences, are explained with a time-dependent charge-carrier mobility, and the implications of such a behavior for device development are discussed. (Less)
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10.1021/jz4009745
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  author       = {{Andersson, Mattias and Melianas, Armantas and Infahsaeng, Yingyot and Tang, Zheng and Yartsev, Arkady and Inganas, Olle and Sundström, Villy}},
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  pages        = {{2069--2072}},
  publisher    = {{The American Chemical Society (ACS)}},
  series       = {{The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters}},
  title        = {{Unified Study of Recombination in Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells Using Transient Absorption and Charge-Extraction Measurements}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jz4009745}},
  doi          = {{10.1021/jz4009745}},
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