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physics.app-ph2021★ 29 cited

Slow Relaxation of Photogenerated Charge Carriers Boosts Open-Circuit Voltage of Organic Solar Cells

Tanvi Upreti, Sebastian Wilken, Huotian Zhang +1

Among the parameters determining the efficiency of an organic solar cell, the open-circuit voltage () is the one with most room for improvement. Existing models for th…

physics.app-ph2021★ 22 cited

Direct quantification of quasi-Fermi level splitting in organic semiconductor devices

Drew B. Riley, Oskar J. Sandberg, Nora M. Wilson +6

Non-radiative losses to the open-circuit voltage are a primary factor in limiting the power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic devices. The dominant non-radiative loss i…

physics.app-ph2020★ 52 cited

How to Reduce Charge Recombination in Organic Solar Cells: There Are Still Lessons to Learn from P3HT:PCBM

Sebastian Wilken, Dorothea Scheunemann, Staffan Dahlström +3

Suppressing charge recombination is key for organic solar cells to become commercial reality. However, there is still no conclusive picture of how recombination losses are influenc…

physics.app-ph2019★ 23 cited

Experimentally Calibrated Kinetic Monte Carlo Model Reproduces Organic Solar Cell Current-Voltage Curve

Sebastian Wilken, Tanvi Upreti, Armantas Melianas +5

Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations are a powerful tool to study the dynamics of charge carriers in organic photovoltaics. However, the key characteristic of any photovoltaic dev…

physics.app-ph2019★ 39 cited

Watching Space Charge Build up in an Organic Solar Cell

Sebastian Wilken, Oskar J. Sandberg, Dorothea Scheunemann +1

Space charge effects can significantly degrade charge collection in organic photovoltaics (OPVs), especially in thick-film devices. The two main causes of space charge are doping a…

physics.app-ph2019★ 39 cited

Impact of a doping-induced space-charge region on the collection of photo-generated charge carriers in thin-film solar cells based on low-mobility semiconductors

Oskar J. Sandberg, Staffan Dahlström, Mathias Nyman +3

Unintentional doping of the active layer is a source for lowered device performance in organic solar cells. The effect of doping is to induce a space-charge region within the activ…