Photoinduced charge separation at polymer-fullerene interfaces of BHJ solar cells (Conference Presentation)

Oleg G. Poluektov; Jens Niklas; Kristy Mardis

doi:10.1117/12.2235819

10 November 2016 Photoinduced charge separation at polymer-fullerene interfaces of BHJ solar cells (Conference Presentation)

Oleg G. Poluektov, Jens Niklas, Kristy Mardis

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Proceedings Volume 9923, Physical Chemistry of Interfaces and Nanomaterials XV; 992303 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2235819
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

While photovoltaic cells are highly promising man-made devices for direct solar energy utilization, a number of fundamental questions about how the organic bulk heterojunction cell enables efficient long-lived and long-range charge separation remain unanswered. These questions were address by employing an advanced suite of EPR spectroscopy in combination with DFT calculations to study mechanism of charge separation at the polymer-fullerene interfaces of photo-active BHJ. Observed charge delocalization in BHJ upon photoinduced ET is analogous to that in organic donor-acceptor material. This is an efficient mechanism of charge stabilization in photosynthetic assemblies. Time-resolved EPR spectra show a strong polarization pattern for all polymer-fullerene blends under study, which is caused by non-Boltzmann population of the electron spin energy levels in the radical pairs. The first observation of this phenomenon was reported in natural and artificial photosynthetic assemblies, and comparison with these systems allows us to better understand charge separation processes in OPVs. The spectral analysis presented here, in combination with DFT calculations, shows that CS processes in OPV materials are similar to that in organic photosynthetic systems. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences, under Contract DE-AC02-06CH11357 at Argonne National Laboratory.

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Oleg G. Poluektov, Jens Niklas, and Kristy Mardis "Photoinduced charge separation at polymer-fullerene interfaces of BHJ solar cells (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 9923, Physical Chemistry of Interfaces and Nanomaterials XV, 992303 (10 November 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2235819

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Polymers

Solar energy

Interfaces

Solar cells

Chemical analysis

Earth sciences

Heterojunctions

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