Encounter-Limited Charge-Carrier Recombination in Phase-Separated Organic Semiconductor Blends
Encounter-Limited Charge-Carrier Recombination in Phase-Separated Organic Semiconductor Blends
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.114.136602
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发表时间:
2015-04-01
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Deibel, Carsten
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作者:
Heiber, Michael C.;Baumbach, Christoph;Deibel, Carsten
The theoretical effects of phase separation on encounter-limited charge carrier recombination in organic semiconductor blends are investigated using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of pump-probe experiments. Using model bulk heterojunction morphologies, the dependence of the recombination rate on domain size and charge carrier mobility are quantified. Unifying competing models and simulation results, we show that the mobility dependence of the recombination rate can be described using the power mean of the electron and hole mobilities with a domain-size-dependent exponent. Additionally, for domain sizes typical of organic photovoltaic devices, we find that phase separation reduces the recombination rate by less than one order of magnitude compared to the Langevin model and that the mobility dependence can be approximated by the geometric mean.