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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 4, Issue 12, Pages 2069-2072Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jz4009745
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- Swedish Research Council
- Swedish Energy Agency (STEM)
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- ERC (VISCHEM) [226136]
- Wallenberg Scholar grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- European Research Council (ERC) [226136] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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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.
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