How High Local Charge Carrier Mobility and an Energy Cascade in a Three-Phase Bulk Heterojunction Enable >90% Quantum Efficiency

被引:240
作者
Burke, Timothy M. [1 ]
McGehee, Michael D. [1 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
bulk heterojunction; polymer solar cell; Monte Carlo simulation; geminate pair separation; POLYMER SOLAR-CELLS; RESOLVED TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; POWER-CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GEMINATE RECOMBINATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; DISSOCIATION; SEPARATION; DYNAMICS; FILMS; SIMULATIONS;
D O I
10.1002/adma.201304241
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
Charge generation in champion organic solar cells is highly efficient in spite of low bulk charge-carrier mobilities and short geminate-pair lifetimes. In this work, kinetic Monte Carlo simulations are used to understand efficient charge generation in terms of experimentally measured high local charge-carrier mobilities and energy cascades due to molecular mixing. © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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页码:1923 / 1928
页数:6
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