Probing the pathways of free charge generation in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells.
Probing the pathways of free charge generation in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells.
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DOI:
10.1038/s41467-018-04386-3
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发表时间:
2018-05-23
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Neher D
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作者:
Kurpiers J;Ferron T;Roland S;Jakoby M;Thiede T;Jaiser F;Albrecht S;Janietz S;Collins BA;Howard IA;Neher D
The fact that organic solar cells perform efficiently despite the low dielectric constant of most photoactive blends initiated a long-standing debate regarding the dominant pathways of free charge formation. Here, we address this issue through the accurate measurement of the activation energy for free charge photogeneration over a wide range of photon energy, using the method of time-delayed collection field. For our prototypical low bandgap polymer:fullerene blends, we find that neither the temperature nor the field dependence of free charge generation depend on the excitation energy, ruling out an appreciable contribution to free charge generation though hot carrier pathways. On the other hand, activation energies are on the order of the room temperature thermal energy for all studied blends. We conclude that charge generation in such devices proceeds through thermalized charge transfer states, and that thermal energy is sufficient to separate most of these states into free charges. Contradictory models are being debated on the dominant pathways of charge generation in organic solar cells. Here Kurpiers et al. determine the activation energy for this fundamental process and reveal that the main channel is via thermalized charge transfer states instead of hot exciton dissociation.
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