The lowest-energy charge-transfer state and its role in charge separation in organic photovoltaics

Do “Hot” Charge-Transfer Excitons Promote Free Carrier Generation in Organic Photovoltaics?

(2015) Guangjun Nan et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Static and Dynamic Energetic Disorders in the C60, PC61BM, C70, and PC71BM Fullerenes

(2015) Naga Rajesh Tummala et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Single-junction polymer solar cells with high efficiency and photovoltage

(2015) Zhicai He et al.   Nature Photonics

First Principles Calculations of Charge Transfer Excitations in Polymer-Fullerene Complexes: Influence of Excess Energy

(2014) Dorota Niedzialek et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Single-Junction Polymer Solar Cells Exceeding 10% Power Conversion Efficiency

(2014) Jing-De Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Impact of Electron Delocalization on the Nature of the Charge-Transfer States in Model Pentacene/C60 Interfaces: A Density Functional Theory Study

(2014) Bing Yang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Charge Separation and Exciton Dynamics at Polymer/ZnO Interface from First-Principles Simulations

(2014) Guangfen Wu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Unequal Partnership: Asymmetric Roles of Polymeric Donor and Fullerene Acceptor in Generating Free Charge

(2014) Brett M. Savoie et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Impact of mesoscale order on open-circuit voltage in organic solar cells

(2014) Carl Poelking et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Are hot charge transfer states the primary cause of efficient free-charge generation in polymer:fullerene organic photovoltaic devices? A kinetic Monte Carlo study

(2014) Matthew L. Jones et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Charge separation energetics at organic heterojunctions: on the role of structural and electrostatic disorder

(2014) Frédéric Castet et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Charge generation in polymer–fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells

(2014) Feng Gao et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Coherent ultrafast charge transfer in an organic photovoltaic blend

(2014) S. M. Falke et al.   SCIENCE

Quantum Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells: Electro-Optical Cavity Considerations

(2014) Ardalan Armin et al.   ACS Photonics

How High Local Charge Carrier Mobility and an Energy Cascade in a Three-Phase Bulk Heterojunction Enable >90% Quantum Efficiency

(2013) Timothy M. Burke et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Developing understanding of organic photovoltaic devices: kinetic Monte Carlo models of geminate and non-geminate recombination, charge transport and charge extraction

(2013) Chris Groves   Energy & Environmental Science

Suppression of geminate charge recombination in organic photovoltaic devices with a cascaded energy heterojunction

(2013) Chris Groves   Energy & Environmental Science

Energetics of Electron–Hole Separation at P3HT/PCBM Heterojunctions

(2013) Gabriele D’Avino et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Separating Charges at Organic Interfaces: Effects of Disorder, Hot States, and Electric Field

(2013) Pabitra K. Nayak et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Ultrafast Charge Separation in Organic Photovoltaics Enhanced by Charge Delocalization and Vibronically Hot Exciton Dissociation

(2013) Hiroyuki Tamura et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Broadband Ultrafast Photoluminescence Spectroscopy Resolves Charge Photogeneration via Delocalized Hot Excitons in Polymer:Fullerene Photovoltaic Blends

(2013) Kai Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Efficient charge generation by relaxed charge-transfer states at organic interfaces

(2013) Koen Vandewal et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductor Photovoltaic Diodes

(2013) S. Gelinas et al.   SCIENCE

A polymer tandem solar cell with 10.6% power conversion efficiency

(2013) Jingbi You et al.   Nature Communications

The Impact of Molecular Orientation on the Photovoltaic Properties of a Phthalocyanine/Fullerene Heterojunction

(2012) Barry P. Rand et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Molecular control of photoexcited charge transfer and recombination at a quaterthiophene/zinc oxide interface

(2012) Weiwei Mou et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Dynamic Monte Carlo modeling of exciton dissociation in organic donor-acceptor solar cells

(2012) Michael C. Heiber et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Calculating the Efficiency of Exciton Dissociation at the Interface between a Conjugated Polymer and an Electron Acceptor

(2012) S. D. Baranovskii et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

On the Energetic Dependence of Charge Separation in Low-Band-Gap Polymer/Fullerene Blends

(2012) Stoichko D. Dimitrov et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High-Mobility Field-Effect Transistors from Large-Area Solution-Grown Aligned C60 Single Crystals

(2012) Hanying Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Hot exciton dissociation in polymer solar cells

(2012) G. Grancini et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Long-range exciton dissociation in organic solar cells

(2012) D. Caruso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Role of Driving Energy and Delocalized States for Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductors

(2012) A. A. Bakulin et al.   SCIENCE

The Importance of Fullerene Percolation in the Mixed Regions of Polymer-Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2012) Jonathan A. Bartelt et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Influence of Photon Excess Energy on Charge Carrier Dynamics in a Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cell

(2012) Tom G. J. van der Hofstad et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Long-range corrected hybrid functionals for π-conjugated systems: Dependence of the range-separation parameter on conjugation length

(2011) Thomas Körzdörfer et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

The Binding Energy of Charge-Transfer Excitons Localized at Polymeric Semiconductor Heterojunctions

(2011) Simon Gélinas et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Absolute Rate of Charge Separation and Recombination in a Molecular Model of the P3HT/PCBM Interface

(2011) Tao Liu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Entropy of Charge Separation in Organic Photovoltaic Cells: The Benefit of Higher Dimensionality

(2011) Brian A. Gregg   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

From computational discovery to experimental characterization of a high hole mobility organic crystal

(2011) Anatoliy N. Sokolov et al.   Nature Communications

For the Bright Future-Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells with Power Conversion Efficiency of 7.4%

(2010) Yongye Liang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Role of the Charge Transfer State in Organic Donor-Acceptor Solar Cells

(2010) Carsten Deibel et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Charge Photogeneration in Organic Solar Cells

(2010) Tracey M. Clarke et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Theoretical Study of the Organic Photovoltaic Electron Acceptor PCBM: Morphology, Electronic Structure, and Charge Localization

(2010) David L. Cheung et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Field-Independent Charge Photogeneration in PCPDTBT/PC70BM Solar Cells

(2010) Fiona C. Jamieson et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Charge Transfer State Versus Hot Exciton Dissociation in Polymer−Fullerene Blended Solar Cells

(2010) Jiye Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Electron and Hole Dynamics in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Influencing Factors and Systematic Trends

(2010) Sheng Meng et al.   NANO LETTERS

First-principles determination of charge carrier mobility in disordered semiconducting polymers

(2010) Xu Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Subnanosecond Geminate Charge Recombination in Polymer-Polymer Photovoltaic Devices

(2010) Justin M. Hodgkiss et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Charge-Transfer Excitons at Organic Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces

(2009) X.-Y. Zhu et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Molecular Understanding of Organic Solar Cells: The Challenges

(2009) Jean-Luc Brédas et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Thienyl-substituted methanofullerene derivatives for organic photovoltaic cells

(2009) Jung Hei Choi et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Reliable Prediction of Charge Transfer Excitations in Molecular Complexes Using Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

(2009) Tamar Stein et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Exciton-Dissociation and Charge-Recombination Processes in Pentacene/C60Solar Cells: Theoretical Insight into the Impact of Interface Geometry

(2009) Yuanping Yi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Polymer solar cells with enhanced open-circuit voltage and efficiency

(2009) Hsiang-Yu Chen et al.   Nature Photonics

Bulk heterojunction solar cells with internal quantum efficiency approaching 100%

(2009) Sung Heum Park et al.   Nature Photonics

Charge-transfer states in conjugated polymer/fullerene blends: Below-gap weakly bound excitons for polymer photovoltaics

(2008) Markus Hallermann et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Monte Carlo modeling of geminate recombination in polymer-polymer photovoltaic devices

(2008) C. Groves et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Compositional and Electric Field Dependence of the Dissociation of Charge Transfer Excitons in Alternating Polyfluorene Copolymer/Fullerene Blends

(2008) Dirk Veldman et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Charge carrier mobility and lifetime of organic bulk heterojunctions analyzed by impedance spectroscopy

(2008) Germà Garcia-Belmonte et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS

Nonradiative Quenching of Fluorescence in a Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube: A Time-DomainAb InitioStudy

(2008) Bradley F. Habenicht et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Coulomb Barrier for Charge Separation at an Organic Semiconductor Interface

(2008) Matthias Muntwiler et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS