TY - GEN
T1 - Ascertaining the limitations of low mobility on organic solar cell performance
AU - Savoie, B. M.
AU - Tan, S.
AU - Jerome, J. W.
AU - Shu, C. W.
AU - Ratner, M. A.
AU - Marks, T. J.
PY - 2012/9/27
Y1 - 2012/9/27
N2 - In the past decade, organic photovoltaics (OPV) have emerged as an intensely studied alternative energy technology. The OPV platform presents several attractive qualities, yet, the high disorder and relative low mobility of the materials comprising OPV systems remain a bottleneck to further progress. We report here a modeling methodology that quantifies the efficiency losses engendered by the low mobility of these systems. We also report a methodology that explicitly treats the charge transfer (CT) state that has been shown to influence device performance. We compare two commonly studied OPV architectures, the bilayer (BL) and blended bulk-heterojunction (BHJ), and separately investigate the sensitivity of each architecture to mobility. Our findings suggest that mismatched mobilities of the active layer components can lead to additional recombination currents. We find that the collection current is largely limited by the slow carrier; consequently, the high mobility carriers only increase the recombination current without aiding collection.
AB - In the past decade, organic photovoltaics (OPV) have emerged as an intensely studied alternative energy technology. The OPV platform presents several attractive qualities, yet, the high disorder and relative low mobility of the materials comprising OPV systems remain a bottleneck to further progress. We report here a modeling methodology that quantifies the efficiency losses engendered by the low mobility of these systems. We also report a methodology that explicitly treats the charge transfer (CT) state that has been shown to influence device performance. We compare two commonly studied OPV architectures, the bilayer (BL) and blended bulk-heterojunction (BHJ), and separately investigate the sensitivity of each architecture to mobility. Our findings suggest that mismatched mobilities of the active layer components can lead to additional recombination currents. We find that the collection current is largely limited by the slow carrier; consequently, the high mobility carriers only increase the recombination current without aiding collection.
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U2 - 10.1109/IWCE.2012.6242859
DO - 10.1109/IWCE.2012.6242859
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84866546080
SN - 9781467307055
T3 - 2012 15th International Workshop on Computational Electronics, IWCE 2012
BT - 2012 15th International Workshop on Computational Electronics, IWCE 2012
T2 - 2012 15th International Workshop on Computational Electronics, IWCE 2012
Y2 - 22 May 2012 through 25 May 2012
ER -