Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 80, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.075203
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- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung [03SF0334F]
- Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology
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We propose a model to explain the reduced bimolecular recombination rate found in state-of-the-art bulk heterojunction solar cells. When compared to the Langevin recombination, the experimentally observed rate is one to four orders of magnitude lower but gets closer to the Langevin case for low temperatures. Our model considers the organic solar cell as device with carrier-concentration gradients, which form due to the electrode/blend/electrode device configuration. The resulting electron concentration under working conditions of a solar cell is higher at the cathode than at the anode and vice versa for holes. Therefore, the spatially dependent bimolecular recombination rate, proportional to the local product of electron and hole concentrations, is much lower as compared to the calculation of the recombination rate based on the extracted and thus averaged charge-carrier concentrations. We consider also the temperature dependence of the recombination rate, which can be described with our model.
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