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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 122, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4999278
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- German Ministry of Science and Education [FKZ 13N13719]
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We present a closed analytical model to describe time dependent photocurrents upon pulsed illumination in the presence of an external RC circuit. In combination with numerical drift diffusion simulations, it is shown that the RC time has a severe influence on the shape of the transients. In particular, the maximum of the photocurrent is delayed due to a delayed recharging of the electrodes. This delay increases with the increasing RC constant. As a consequence, charge carrier mobilities determined from simple extrapolation of the initial photocurrent decay will be in general too small and feature a false dependence on the electric field. Here, we present a recipe to correct charge carrier mobilities determined from measured photocurrent transients by taking into account the RC time of the experimental set-up. We also demonstrate how the model can be used to more reliably determine the charge carrier mobility from experimental data of a typical polymer/fullerene organic solar cell. It is shown that further aspects like a finite rising time of the pulse generator and the current contribution of the slower charger carriers influence the shape of the transients and may lead to an additional underestimation of the transit time. Published by AIP Publishing.
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