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most citedA Universal Urbach Rule for Disordered Organic Semiconductors

235 citations · 546 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

physics.app-ph2026

Capacitance of Undoped Thin-Film Diodes

Oskar J. Sandberg, Mathias Nyman, Stefan Zeiske +3

The capacitance of thin-film diodes based on undoped semiconductors are dominated by injected charge carriers rather than doping-induced carriers. However, an analytical framework…

physics.app-ph2026

What Photocurrent Versus Effective Voltage Tells Us About Charge Generation in Organic Solar Cells

Ardalan Armin, Austin M. Kay, Drew B. Riley +2

The photocurrent of an organic solar cell is routinely plotted against an effective voltage and used to extract an exciton dissociation probability, and through it a free-charge ge…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

A Unified Diode Equation for Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Oskar J Sandberg, Ardalan Armin

Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are promising candidates for future sustainable technologies, including applications within the renewable energy sector, such as solar cells and indoor…

physics.app-ph2021

Quantifying the Excitonic Static Disorder in Organic Semiconductors

Austin M. Kay, Oskar J. Sandberg, Nasim Zarrabi +5

Organic semiconductors are disordered molecular solids and as a result, their internal charge dynamics and ultimately, the performance of the optoelectronic devices they constitute…

physics.app-ph2021★ 1 cited

A quasi steady-state measurement of exciton diffusion lengths in organic semiconductors

Drew B. Riley, Oskar J. Sandberg, Wei Li +2

Understanding the role that exciton diffusion plays in organic solar cells is a crucial to understanding the recent rise in power conversion effciencies brought about by non-fuller…

physics.app-ph2021★ 37 cited

Energetics and Kinetics Requirements for Organic Solar Cells to 2 Break the 20% Power Conversion Efficiency Barrier

Oskar J Sandberg, Ardalan Armin

The thermodynamic limit for the efficiency of solar cells is predominantly defined by the energy bandgap of the used semiconductor. In case of organic solar cells both energetics a…

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.optics2021★ 235 cited

A Universal Urbach Rule for Disordered Organic Semiconductors

Christina Kaiser, Oskar J. Sandberg, Nasim Zarrabi +3

In crystalline semiconductors, absorption onset sharpness is characterized by temperature dependent Urbach energies. These energies quantify the static, structural disorder causing…

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…

physics.app-ph2019★ 96 cited

A Theoretical Perspective on Transient Photovoltage and Charge Extraction Techniques

Oskar J. Sandberg, Kristofer Tvingstedt, Paul Meredith +1

Transient photovoltage (TPV) is a technique frequently used to determine charge carrier lifetimes in thin-film solar cells such as organic, dye sensitized and perovskite solar cell…

physics.app-ph2019★ 41 cited

On the effect of surface recombination in thin film solar cells, light emitting diodes and photodetectors

Oskar J. Sandberg, Ardalan Armin

Radiative and non-radiative charge carrier recombination in thin-film diodes plays a key role in determining the efficiency of electronic devices made of next generation semiconduc…

physics.app-ph2019★ 29 cited

Effect of Imbalanced Charge Transport on the Interplay of Surface and Bulk Recombination in Organic Solar Cells

Dorothea Scheunemann, Sebastian Wilken, Oskar J. Sandberg +2

Surface recombination has a major impact on the open-circuit voltage () of organic photovoltaics. Here, we study how this loss mechanism is influenced by imbalanced ch…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 7 cited

Method for characterizing bulk recombination using photoinduced absorption

Nora M. Wilson, Simon Sandén, Oskar J. Sandberg +1

The influence of reaction order and trap-assisted recombination on continuous-wave photoinduced absorption measurements is clarified through analytical calculations and numerical s…