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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
卷 22, 期 6, 页码 1116-1128出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201101632
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polymer solar cells; charge transfer; photoexcitation; recombination
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- US Army General Technical Services
- Department of Energy (DOE) [FG02-08ER46535]
- Center for Energy Efficient Materials, an Energy Frontier Research Center
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001009]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [PBGEP2-125859]
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) of Singapore
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PBGEP2-125859] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
This article presents a critical discussion of the various physical processes occurring in organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells based on recent experimental results. The investigations span from photoexcitation to charge separation, recombination, and sweep-out to the electrodes. Exciton formation and relaxation in poly[N-9?-hepta-decanyl-2,7-carbazole-alt-5,5-(4',7'-di-2-thienyl-2',1',3'-benzothiadiazole) (PCDTBT) and poly-3(hexylthiophene) (P3HT) are discussed based on a fluorescence up-conversion study. The commonly accepted paradigm describing the conversion of incident photons into charge carriers in the BHJ material is re-examined in light of these femtosecond time-resolved measurements. Transient photoconductivity, time-delayed collection field, and time-delayed dual pulse experiments carried out on BHJ solar cells demonstrate the competition between carrier sweep-out by the internal field and the loss of photogenerated carriers by recombination. Finally, an emerging hypothesis is discussed: that bimolecular recombination accounts for the majority of recombination from short circuit to open circuit in optimized solar cells, and that bimolecular recombination is bias- and charge-density-dependent. The study of recombination loss processes in organic solar cells leads to insights into what must be accomplished to achieve the ideal solar cell.
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