Drift-Diffusion Modeling of the Effects of Structural Disorder and Carrier Mobility on the Performance of Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Polymer Homo-Tandem Solar Cells with Best Efficiency of 11.3%

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A charge carrier transport model for donor-acceptor blend layers

(2015) Janine Fischer et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

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

Bimolecular Recombination in Organic Photovoltaics

(2014) Girish Lakhwani et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

A Conclusive View on Charge Generation, Recombination, and Extraction in As-Prepared and Annealed P3HT:PCBM Blends: Combined Experimental and Simulation Work

(2014) Juliane Kniepert et al.   Advanced Energy 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

Understanding the origin of the S-curve in conjugated polymer/fullerene photovoltaics from drift-diffusion simulations

(2013) B. Y. Finck et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Charge carrier recombination in organic solar cells

(2013) Christopher M. Proctor et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Simple experimental test to distinguish extraction and injection barriers at the electrodes of (organic) solar cells with S-shaped current–voltage characteristics

(2013) Wolfgang Tress et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

A polymer tandem solar cell with 10.6% power conversion efficiency

(2013) Jingbi You et al.   Nature Communications

Modeling morphology evolution during solvent-based fabrication of organic solar cells

(2012) Olga Wodo et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

The relative importance of domain size, domain purity and domain interfaces to the performance of bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaics

(2012) Benjamin P. Lyons et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Exciton diffusion length in narrow bandgap polymers

(2012) Oleksandr V. Mikhnenko et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Reliable extraction of organic solar cell parameters by combining steady-state and transient techniques

(2012) M.T. Neukom et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS

Charge extraction and photocurrent in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2012) Andreas Petersen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Optimum mobility, contact properties, and open-circuit voltage of organic solar cells: A drift-diffusion simulation study

(2012) Wolfgang Tress et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Random vs regularized OPV: Limits of performance gain of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells by morphology engineering

(2012) Biswajit Ray et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Extracting Microscopic Device Parameters from Transient Photocurrent Measurements of P3HT:PCBM Solar Cells

(2012) Roderick C. I. MacKenzie et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Competition between Fullerene Aggregation and Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Crystallization upon Annealing of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2011) Wei-Ru Wu et al.   ACS Nano

Influence of Hole-Transport Layers and Donor Materials on Open-Circuit Voltage and Shape of I-V Curves of Organic Solar Cells

(2011) Wolfgang Tress et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Imbalanced mobilities causing S-shaped IV curves in planar heterojunction organic solar cells

(2011) Wolfgang Tress et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Organic solar cells: A new look at traditional models

(2011) Jonathan D. Servaites et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Effects of Additives on the Morphology of Solution Phase Aggregates Formed by Active Layer Components of High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells

(2011) Sylvia J. Lou et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Nanosecond response of organic solar cells and photodiodes: Role of trap states

(2011) Nico Christ et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Recombination via tail states in polythiophene:fullerene solar cells

(2011) Thomas Kirchartz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

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

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

Carrier mobility of organic semiconductors based on current-voltage characteristics

(2010) Z. B. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Numerical simulation of charge transport in disordered organic semiconductor devices

(2010) E. Knapp et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

S-shaped current-voltage characteristics of organic solar devices

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

Drift-diffusion modeling of photocurrent transients in bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2009) Inchan Hwang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Improving the Reproducibility of P3HT:PCBM Solar Cells by Controlling the PCBM/Cathode Interface

(2009) Bertrand Tremolet de Villers et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Origin of reduced polaron recombination in organic semiconductor devices

(2009) C. Deibel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

A Theoretical Study of the Charge Transfer Behavior of the Highly Regioregular Poly-3-hexylthiophene in the Ordered State

(2008) Yi-Kang Lan et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Three-Dimensional Nanoscale Organization of Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells

(2008) Svetlana S. van Bavel et al.   NANO LETTERS

“Columnlike” Structure of the Cross-Sectional Morphology of Bulk Heterojunction Materials

(2008) Ji Sun Moon et al.   NANO LETTERS

Modeling photocurrent transients in organic solar cells

(2008) I Hwang et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Hole transport in polyfluorene-based sandwich-type devices: Quantitative analysis of the role of energetic disorder

(2008) S. L. M. van Mensfoort et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Bimolecular recombination losses in polythiophene: Fullerene solar cells

(2008) C. G. Shuttle et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B