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PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 206, Issue 12, Pages 2731-2736Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.200925282
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In polymer:fullerene solar cells, the origin of the losses in the field-dependent photocurrent is still controversially debated. We contribute to the ongoing discussion by performing photoinduced charge extraction measurements on poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl):[6,6]-phenyl-C-61 butyric acid methyl ester solar cells in order to investigate the processes ruling charge carrier decay. Calculating the drift length of photogenerated charges, we find that polaron recombination is not limiting the photocurrent for annealed devices. Additionally, we applied Monte Carlo simulations on blends of conjugated polymer chain donors with acceptor molecules in order to gain insight into the polaron pair dissociation. The dissociation yield turns out to be rather high, with only a weak field dependence. With this complementary view on dissociation and recombination, we stress the importance of accounting for polaron pair dissociation, polaron recombination as well as charge extraction when considering the loss mechanisms in organic solar cells. (C) 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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