The Role of Mobility on Charge Generation, Recombination, and Extraction in Polymer-Based Solar Cells

Geminate electron-hole recombination in organic photovoltaic cells. A semi-empirical theory

(2017) Mariusz Wojcik et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Hole Relaxation in Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells Examined by the Simultaneous Measurement of Time-of-Flight and Time-Resolved Microwave Conductivity

(2017) Yoshiki Shimata et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Incorporating Fluorine Substitution into Conjugated Polymers for Solar Cells: Three Different Means, Same Results

(2017) Mary Allison Kelly et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Interplay Between Triplet-, Singlet-Charge Transfer States and Free Charge Carriers Defining Bimolecular Recombination Rate Constant of Organic Solar Cells

(2017) Ardalan Armin et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Charge Generation and Mobility-Limited Performance of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with a Higher Adduct Fullerene

(2017) Steffen Roland et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Efficient Charge Separation of Cold Charge-Transfer States in Organic Solar Cells Through Incoherent Hopping

(2017) Stavros Athanasopoulos et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Molecular Optimization Enables over 13% Efficiency in Organic Solar Cells

(2017) Wenchao Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Impact of morphology on polaron delocalization in a semicrystalline conjugated polymer

(2017) Robert Steyrleuthner et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Charge Carrier Extraction in Organic Solar Cells Governed by Steady-State Mobilities

(2017) Vincent M. Le Corre et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Photogenerated Carrier Mobility Significantly Exceeds Injected Carrier Mobility in Organic Solar Cells

(2017) Armantas Melianas et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Charge Transport in Pure and Mixed Phases in Organic Solar Cells

(2017) Armantas Melianas et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Intrinsic non-radiative voltage losses in fullerene-based organic solar cells

(2017) Johannes Benduhn et al.   Nature Energy

Limits for Recombination in a Low Energy Loss Organic Heterojunction

(2016) S. Matthew Menke et al.   ACS Nano

Suppressing Subnanosecond Bimolecular Charge Recombination in a High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Material

(2016) Kyra N. Schwarz et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Entropy and Disorder Enable Charge Separation in Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Samantha N. Hood et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

The Role of Space Charge Effects on the Competition between Recombination and Extraction in Solar Cells with Low-Mobility Photoactive Layers

(2016) Martin Stolterfoht et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

What Controls the Rate of Ultrafast Charge Transfer and Charge Separation Efficiency in Organic Photovoltaic Blends

(2016) Andreas C. Jakowetz et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells by Synergistic Effects of Fine-Tuned Crystallinity and Solvent Annealing

(2016) Zhaojun Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Slower carriers limit charge generation in organic semiconductor light-harvesting systems

(2016) Martin Stolterfoht et al.   Nature Communications

11.4% Efficiency non-fullerene polymer solar cells with trialkylsilyl substituted 2D-conjugated polymer as donor

(2016) Haijun Bin et al.   Nature Communications

Reduced Recombination in High Efficiency Molecular Nematic Liquid Crystalline: Fullerene Solar Cells

(2016) Ardalan Armin et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Electric Field and Mobility Dependent First-Order Recombination Losses in Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Martin Stolterfoht et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Charge carrier thermalization in organic diodes

(2016) N. J. van der Kaap et al.   Scientific Reports

Extracting Information about the Electronic Quality of Organic Solar-Cell Absorbers from Fill Factor and Thickness

(2016) Pascal Kaienburg et al.   Physical Review Applied

Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents

(2016) Jingbo Zhao et al.   Nature Energy

Dispersive Non-Geminate Recombination in an Amorphous Polymer:Fullerene Blend

(2016) Jona Kurpiers et al.   Scientific Reports

A New Figure of Merit for Organic Solar Cells with Transport-limited Photocurrents

(2016) Dieter Neher et al.   Scientific Reports

Role of coherence and delocalization in photo-induced electron transfer at organic interfaces

(2016) V. Abramavicius et al.   Scientific Reports

Sub-ns triplet state formation by non-geminate recombination in PSBTBT:PC70BM and PCPDTBT:PC60BM organic solar cells

(2015) Fabian Etzold et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Study of Dissociation of Charge Transfer States at the Donor–Acceptor Interface of Organic Solar Cells

(2015) Steffen Tscheuschner et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Charge Transport without Recombination in Organic Solar Cells and Photodiodes

(2015) Martin Stolterfoht et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Dissociation of Charge Transfer States and Carrier Separation in Bilayer Organic Solar Cells: A Time-Resolved Electroabsorption Spectroscopy Study

(2015) Andrius Devižis et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Determining the Role of Polymer Molecular Weight for High-Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells: Its Effect on Polymer Aggregation and Phase Separation

(2015) Hyunbum Kang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

On the role of local charge carrier mobility in the charge separation mechanism of organic photovoltaics

(2015) Saya Yoshikawa et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Models of charge pair generation in organic solar cells

(2015) Sheridan Few et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Encounter-Limited Charge-Carrier Recombination in Phase-Separated Organic Semiconductor Blends

(2015) Michael C. Heiber et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Photo-generated carriers lose energy during extraction from polymer-fullerene solar cells

(2015) Armantas Melianas et al.   Nature Communications

Polaron pair mediated triplet generation in polymer/fullerene blends

(2015) Stoichko D. Dimitrov et al.   Nature Communications

Competition between recombination and extraction of free charges determines the fill factor of organic solar cells

(2015) Davide Bartesaghi et al.   Nature Communications

Impact of charge transport on current–voltage characteristics and power-conversion efficiency of organic solar cells

(2015) Uli Würfel et al.   Nature Communications

Charge-Carrier Mobility Requirements for Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with High Fill Factor and External Quantum Efficiency >90%

(2015) Jonathan A. Bartelt et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Beyond Langevin Recombination: How Equilibrium Between Free Carriers and Charge Transfer States Determines the Open-Circuit Voltage of Organic Solar Cells

(2015) Timothy M. Burke et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Photocarrier drift distance in organic solar cells and photodetectors

(2015) Martin Stolterfoht et al.   Scientific Reports

Analytical expression for the current-voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2015) M. L. Inche Ibrahim et al.   AIP Advances

On the Efficiency of Charge Transfer State Splitting in Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells

(2014) Steve Albrecht et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Mobility Guidelines for High Fill Factor Solution-Processed Small Molecule Solar Cells

(2014) Christopher M. Proctor et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Increased Open-Circuit Voltage of Organic Solar Cells by Reduced Donor-Acceptor Interface Area

(2014) Koen Vandewal et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Determination of the intrinsic and the injection dependent charge carrier density in organic solar cells using the Suns-VOCmethod

(2014) Sebastian Schiefer et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Quantifying Charge Extraction in Organic Solar Cells: The Case of Fluorinated PCPDTBT

(2014) Steve Albrecht et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Mobility-Controlled Performance of Thick Solar Cells Based on Fluorinated Copolymers

(2014) Wentao Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Charge Carrier Generation and Transport in Different Stoichiometry APFO3:PC61BM Solar Cells

(2014) Vytenis Pranculis et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Charge generation in polymer–fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells

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

Control of charge generation and recombination in ternary polymer/polymer:fullerene photovoltaic blends using amorphous and semi-crystalline copolymers as donors

(2014) Hannah Mangold et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Delocalization and dielectric screening of charge transfer states in organic photovoltaic cells

(2014) B. Bernardo et al.   Nature Communications

Charge Carrier Dynamics of Polymer:Fullerene Blends: From Geminate to Non-Geminate Recombination

(2014) Dimali Amarasinghe Vithanage et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Charge Photogeneration for a Series of Thiazolo-Thiazole Donor Polymers Blended with the Fullerene Electron Acceptors PCBM and ICBA

(2013) Safa Shoaee et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Understanding Local and Macroscopic Electron Mobilities in the Fullerene Network of Conjugated Polymer-based Solar Cells: Time-Resolved Microwave Conductivity and Theory

(2013) Jordan C. Aguirre et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

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

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

(2013) Chris Groves   Energy & Environmental Science

How quasi-free holes and electrons are generated in organic photovoltaic interfaces

(2013) Alessandro Troisi   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Voltage-dependent photocurrent transients of PTB7:PC70BM solar cells: Experiment and numerical simulation

(2013) Zhe Li et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Energetics of Electron–Hole Separation at P3HT/PCBM Heterojunctions

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

Revealing the Dynamics of Charge Carriers in Polymer:Fullerene Blends Using Photoinduced Time-Resolved Microwave Conductivity

(2013) Tom J. Savenije et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

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

The role of spin in the kinetic control of recombination in organic photovoltaics

(2013) Akshay Rao et al.   NATURE

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

(2013) Koen Vandewal et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Carrier motion in as-spun and annealed P3HT:PCBM blends revealed by ultrafast optical electric field probing and Monte Carlo simulations

(2013) Vytautas Abramavičius et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Role of the effective mass and interfacial dipoles on exciton dissociation in organic donor-acceptor solar cells

(2013) Christian Schwarz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductor Photovoltaic Diodes

(2013) S. Gelinas et al.   SCIENCE

Visualizing charge separation in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

(2013) D. Amarasinghe Vithanage et al.   Nature Communications

Improvement of photovoltaic performance by ternary blending of amorphous and semi-crystalline polymer analogues with PCBM

(2013) C. Kästner et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Charge Density Dependent Nongeminate Recombination in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2012) Daniel Rauh et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Mechanism for Efficient Photoinduced Charge Separation at Disordered Organic Heterointerfaces

(2012) Harm van Eersel et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Effects of Energetic Disorder and Mobility Anisotropy on Geminate Electron-hole Recombination in the Presence of a Donor-Acceptor Heterojunction

(2012) Mariusz Wojcik et al.   BULLETIN OF THE KOREAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Modeling geminate pair dissociation in organic solar cells: high power conversion efficiencies achieved with moderate optical bandgaps

(2012) Jonathan D. Servaites et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Photovoltaic efficiency limits and material disorder

(2012) Pabitra K. Nayak et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Insights into the Charge Carrier Terahertz Mobility in Polyfluorenes from Large-Scale Atomistic Simulations and Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy

(2012) Nenad Vukmirović et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Fluorinated Copolymer PCPDTBT with Enhanced Open-Circuit Voltage and Reduced Recombination for Highly Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

(2012) Steve Albrecht et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Hot exciton dissociation in polymer solar cells

(2012) G. Grancini et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

(2012) A. A. Bakulin et al.   SCIENCE

Identifying a Threshold Impurity Level for Organic Solar Cells: Enhanced First-Order Recombination Via Well-Defined PC84BM Traps in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2011) Sarah R. Cowan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Why Holes and Electrons Separate So Well in Polymer/Fullerene Photovoltaic Cells

(2011) David P. McMahon et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

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

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

Photogeneration and Recombination in P3HT/PCBM Solar Cells Probed by Time-Delayed Collection Field Experiments

(2011) Juliane Kniepert et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Relationship between energetic disorder and open-circuit voltage in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

(2011) James C. Blakesley et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Carrier dynamics in semiconductors studied with time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy

(2011) Ronald Ulbricht et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Fullerenecrystallisation as a key driver of charge separation in polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2011) Fiona C. Jamieson et al.   Chemical Science

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

(2010) Carsten Deibel et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Geminate electron-hole recombination in organic solids in the presence of a donor-acceptor heterojunction

(2010) Mariusz Wojcik et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Hierarchical charge carrier motion in conjugated polymers

(2010) A. Devižis et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Charge Photogeneration in Organic Solar Cells

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

Charge transport in nanostructured materials for solar energy conversion studied by time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy

(2010) Hynek Němec et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY

Unified Theory of Geminate and Bulk Electron−Hole Recombination in Organic Solar Cells

(2010) Maria Hilczer et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Recombination in Annealed and Nonannealed Polythiophene/Fullerene Solar Cells: Transient Photovoltage Studies versus Numerical Modeling

(2010) Rick Hamilton et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Acceptor Energy Level Control of Charge Photogeneration in Organic Donor/Acceptor Blends

(2010) Safa Shoaee et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ultrafast charge carrier mobility dynamics in poly(spirobifluorene-co-benzothiadiazole): Influence of temperature on initial transport

(2010) A. Devizis et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Interface state recombination in organic solar cells

(2010) R. A. Street et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Recombination in polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2010) Sarah R. Cowan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Charge Transport in Disordered Organic Materials and Its Relevance to Thin-Film Devices: A Tutorial Review

(2009) Nir Tessler et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Polymer-Fullerene Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2009) Gilles Dennler et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Charge photogeneration in polythiophene–perylene diimide blend films

(2009) Safa Shoaee et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Accuracies of the empirical theories of the escape probability based on Eigen model and Braun model compared with the exact extension of Onsager theory

(2009) Mariusz Wojcik et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Bulk heterojunction solar cells with internal quantum efficiency approaching 100%

(2009) Sung Heum Park et al.   Nature Photonics

Origin of the Efficient Polaron-Pair Dissociation in Polymer-Fullerene Blends

(2009) Carsten Deibel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW 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

Exact Solution for Hopping Dissociation of Geminate Electron-Hole Pairs in a Disordered Chain

(2008) O. Rubel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS