Monte-Carlo simulations of geminate electron-hole pair dissociation in a molecular heterojunction: a two-step dissociation mechanism

被引:92
作者
Offermans, T
Meskers, SCJ
Janssen, RAJ
机构
[1] Eindhoven Univ Technol, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands
[2] Dutch Polymer Inst, NL-5600 AX Eindhoven, Netherlands
关键词
photoinduced charged generation; photovoltaics; conjugated polymers; charge carrier dynamics;
D O I
10.1016/j.chemphys.2004.08.015
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The Monte-Carlo simulations are used to investigate the dissociation of a Coulomb correlated charge pair at an idealized interface between an electron accepting and an electron donating molecular material. In the simulations the materials are represented by cubic lattices of sites, with site the energies spread according to Gaussian distributions. The influence of temperature, applied external fields, and the width of the Gaussian densities of states distribution for both the electron and the hole transporting material are investigated. The results show that the dissociation of geminate charge pairs is assisted by disorder and the results can be understood in terms of a two-step model. In the first step, the slow carrier in the most disordered material jumps away from the interface. In the following, second step, the reduced Coulombic attraction allows the faster carrier in the less disordered material to escape from the interface by thermally activated hopping. When the rate for geminate recombination at the interface is very low (<1 ns(-1)) the simulations predict a high yield for carrier collection, as observed experimentally. Comparison of the simulated and experimentally observed temperature dependence of the collection efficiency indicates that at low temperature dissociation of the geminate charge pairs may be one of the factors limiting the device performance. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:125 / 133
页数:9
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