Nongeminate and Geminate Recombination in PTB7:PCBM solar cells
arXiv:2106.10101 · doi:10.1002/adfm.201302134
Abstract
A combination of transient photovoltage (TPV), voltage dependent charge extraction (CE) and time delayed collection field (TDCF) measurements is applied to poly[[4,8-bis[(2-ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl] [3-fluoro-2-[(2-ethylhexyl)carbonyl] thieno[3,4-b]thiophenediyl]] (PTB7):[6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid (PCBM) bulk heterojunction solar cells to analyze the limitations of photovoltaic performance. Devices are processed from pure chlorobenzene (CB) solution and a subset was optimized with 1,8-diiodooctane (DIO) as co-solvent. The dramatic changes in device performance are discussed with respect to the dominating loss processes. While in the devices processed from CB solution, severe geminate and nongeminate recombination is observed, the use of DIO facilitates efficient polaron pair dissociation and minimizes geminate recombination. Thus, from the determined charge carrier decay rate under open circuit conditions and the voltage dependent charge carrier densities , the nongeminate loss current of the samples with DIO alone enables us to reconstruct the current/voltage () characteristics across the whole operational voltage range. Geminate and nongeminate losses are considered to describe the response of cells prepared without additive, but lead to a clearly overestimated device performance. We attribute the deviation between measured and reconstructed characteristics to trapped charges in isolated domains of pure fullerene phases.
7 pages, 5 figures
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