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Efficient Nanoscale Exciton Transport in Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Enables Reduced Bimolecular Recombination of Free Charges

Drew Riley, Oskar Sandberg Orcid Logo, Nasim Zarrabi, Yong Kim, Paul Meredith Orcid Logo, Ardalan Armin Orcid Logo

Advanced Materials, Volume: 35, Issue: 24

Swansea University Authors: Drew Riley, Oskar Sandberg Orcid Logo, Nasim Zarrabi, Yong Kim, Paul Meredith Orcid Logo, Ardalan Armin Orcid Logo

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The highest-efficiency organic photovoltaic (OPV)-based solar cells, made from blends of electron-donating and electron-accepting organic semiconductors, are often characterized by strongly reduced (non-Langevin) bimolecular recombination. Although the origins of the reduced recombination are debate...

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title Efficient Nanoscale Exciton Transport in Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Enables Reduced Bimolecular Recombination of Free Charges
spellingShingle Efficient Nanoscale Exciton Transport in Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Enables Reduced Bimolecular Recombination of Free Charges
Drew Riley
Oskar Sandberg
Nasim Zarrabi
Yong Kim
Paul Meredith
Ardalan Armin
title_short Efficient Nanoscale Exciton Transport in Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Enables Reduced Bimolecular Recombination of Free Charges
title_full Efficient Nanoscale Exciton Transport in Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Enables Reduced Bimolecular Recombination of Free Charges
title_fullStr Efficient Nanoscale Exciton Transport in Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Enables Reduced Bimolecular Recombination of Free Charges
title_full_unstemmed Efficient Nanoscale Exciton Transport in Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Enables Reduced Bimolecular Recombination of Free Charges
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description The highest-efficiency organic photovoltaic (OPV)-based solar cells, made from blends of electron-donating and electron-accepting organic semiconductors, are often characterized by strongly reduced (non-Langevin) bimolecular recombination. Although the origins of the reduced recombination are debated, mechanisms related to the charge-transfer (CT) state and free-carrier encounter dynamics controlled by the size of donor and acceptor domains are proposed as underlying factors. Here, a novel photoluminescence-based probe is reported to accurately quantify the donor–acceptor domain size in OPV blends. Specifically, the domain size is measured in high-efficiency non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) systems and a comparative conventional fullerene system. It is found that the NFA-based blends form larger domains but that the expected reductions in bimolecular recombination attributed to the enhanced domain sizes are too small to account for the observed reduction factors. Further, it is shown that the reduction of bimolecular recombination is correlated to enhanced exciton dynamics within the NFA domains. This indicates that the processes responsible for efficient exciton transport also enable strongly non-Langevin recombination in high-efficiency NFA-based solar cells with low-energy offsets.
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