Power-law density of states in organic solar cells revealed by the open-circuit voltage dependence of the ideality factor

Abstract

The density of states (DOS) is fundamentally important for understanding physical processes in organic disordered semiconductors, yet hard to determine experimentally. We evaluated the DOS by considering recombination via tail states and using the temperature and open-circuit voltage ($V_{\mathrm{oc}}$) dependence of the ideality factor in organic solar cells. By performing Suns-$V_{\mathrm{oc}}$ measurements, we find that gaussian and exponential distributions describe the DOS only at a given quasi-Fermi level splitting. The DOS width increases linearly with the DOS depth, revealing the power-law DOS in these materials.

5 pages, 3 figures

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