article · Journal of Photonics for Energy · 2014

Charge transfer state energy in ternary bulk-heterojunction polymer–fullerene solar cells

Sandra Kouijzer, Weiwei Li, Martijn M. Wienk, René A. J. Janssen

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Abstract

In ternary bulk heterojunction solar cells based on a semiconducting biphenyl-dithienyldiketopyrrolopyrrole copolymer donor and two different fullerene acceptors that distinctly differ in electron affinity, the open-circuit voltage is found to depend in a slightly sublinear fashion on the relative ratio of the two fullerenes in the blend. Similar effects have previously been observed and have been attributed to the formation of an alloyed fullerene phase possessing electronic levels that are the weighted average of the two components. By analyzing the contribution of the charge transfer (CT)-state absorption to the external quantum efficiency of the ternary blend solar cells as a function of composition, we find no evidence for a CT state formed between the polymer and an alloyed fullerene phase. Rather, the results are consistent with the presence of two distinct CT states, one for each polymer–fullerene combination. The two-state CT model does not, however, explain the sublinear behavior of the open-circuit voltage as a function of the blend composition.

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APA 7

Kouijzer, S., Li, W., Wienk, M. M., & Janssen, R. A. J. (2014). Charge transfer state energy in ternary bulk-heterojunction polymer–fullerene solar cells. Journal of Photonics for Energy, 5(1), 057203. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jpe.5.057203

MLA 9

Kouijzer, Sandra, et al. “Charge transfer state energy in ternary bulk-heterojunction polymer–fullerene solar cells.” Journal of Photonics for Energy, vol. 5, no. 1, 2014, p. 057203, https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jpe.5.057203.

Chicago

Kouijzer, Sandra, Weiwei Li, Martijn M. Wienk, and René A. J. Janssen. 2014. “Charge transfer state energy in ternary bulk-heterojunction polymer–fullerene solar cells.” Journal of Photonics for Energy 5 (1): 057203. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jpe.5.057203.

Harvard

Kouijzer, S. et al. (2014) ‘Charge transfer state energy in ternary bulk-heterojunction polymer–fullerene solar cells’, Journal of Photonics for Energy, 5(1), p. 057203. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jpe.5.057203.

BibTeX

@article{kouijzer2014charge,
  title = {{Charge transfer state energy in ternary bulk-heterojunction polymer–fullerene solar cells}},
  author = {Kouijzer, Sandra and Li, Weiwei and Wienk, Martijn M. and Janssen, René A. J.},
  journal = {Journal of Photonics for Energy},
  volume = {5},
  number = {1},
  pages = {057203},
  year = {2014},
  doi = {10.1117/1.jpe.5.057203}
}

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