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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 129, Issue 27, Pages 8466-8472Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja068909q
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By measuring excited state and charge dynamics in blends of an alternating polyfluorene copolymer and fullerene derivative over nine orders in time and two orders in light intensity, we have monitored the light-induced processes from ultrafast charge photogeneration to much slower decay of charges by recombination. We find that at low light intensities relevant to solar cell operation relatively fast (similar to 30 ns) geminate recombination is the dominating charge decay process, while nongeminate recombination has a negligible contribution. The conclusion of our work is that under solar illumination conditions geminate recombination of charges may be directly competing with efficient charge collection in polymer/fullerene solar cells.
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