TY - JOUR
T1 - Photoinduced hole transfer becomes suppressed with diminished driving force in polymer-fullerene solar cells while electron transfer remains active
AU - Ren, Guoqiang
AU - Schlenker, Cody W.
AU - Ahmed, Eilaf
AU - Subramaniyan, Selvam
AU - Olthof, Selina
AU - Kahn, Antoine
AU - Ginger, David S.
AU - Jenekhe, Samson A.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013/3/13
Y1 - 2013/3/13
N2 - Device performance and photoinduced charge transfer are studied in donor/acceptor blends of the oxidation-resistant conjugated polymer poly[(4,8-bis(2-hexyldecyl)oxy)benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene)-2, 6-diyl-alt-(2,5-bis(3-dodecylthiophen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-d;4,5-d′]bisthiazole) ] (PBTHDDT) with the following fullerene acceptors: [6,6]-phenyl-C 71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM); [6,6]-phenyl-C 61-butyric acid methyl ester (PC61BM); and the indene-C60 bis-adduct IC60BA). Power conversion efficiency improves from 1.52% in IC60BA-based solar cells to 3.75% in PC 71BM-based devices. Photoinduced absorption (PIA) of the PBTHDDT:fullerene blends suggests that exciting the donor polymer leads to long-lived positive polarons on the polymer and negative polarons on the fullerene in all three polymer fullerene blends. Selective excitation of the fullerene in PC71BM or PC61BM blends also generates long-lived polarons. In contrast, no discernible PIA features are observed when selectively exciting the fullerene in a PBTHDDT/IC60BA blend. A relatively small driving force of ca. 70 meV appears to sustain charge separation via photoinduced hole transfer from photoexcited PC61BM to the polymer. The decreased driving force for photoinduced hole transfer in the IC60BA blend effectively turns off hole transfer from IC 60BA excitons to the host polymer, even while electron transfer from the polymer to the IC60BA remains active. Suppressed hole transfer from fullerene excitons is a potentially important consideration for materials design and device engineering of organic solar cells. The effect of modulating the driving force for charge separation via photoinduced hole transfer from fullerene excitons in polymer:fullerene solar cells is measured. Poor photoinduced hole transfer is identified as a major limiting factor for photocurrent generation in indene-C60-bis-adduct devices. These results provide a guide to materials design and device engineering for highly efficient organic solar cells.
AB - Device performance and photoinduced charge transfer are studied in donor/acceptor blends of the oxidation-resistant conjugated polymer poly[(4,8-bis(2-hexyldecyl)oxy)benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene)-2, 6-diyl-alt-(2,5-bis(3-dodecylthiophen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-d;4,5-d′]bisthiazole) ] (PBTHDDT) with the following fullerene acceptors: [6,6]-phenyl-C 71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM); [6,6]-phenyl-C 61-butyric acid methyl ester (PC61BM); and the indene-C60 bis-adduct IC60BA). Power conversion efficiency improves from 1.52% in IC60BA-based solar cells to 3.75% in PC 71BM-based devices. Photoinduced absorption (PIA) of the PBTHDDT:fullerene blends suggests that exciting the donor polymer leads to long-lived positive polarons on the polymer and negative polarons on the fullerene in all three polymer fullerene blends. Selective excitation of the fullerene in PC71BM or PC61BM blends also generates long-lived polarons. In contrast, no discernible PIA features are observed when selectively exciting the fullerene in a PBTHDDT/IC60BA blend. A relatively small driving force of ca. 70 meV appears to sustain charge separation via photoinduced hole transfer from photoexcited PC61BM to the polymer. The decreased driving force for photoinduced hole transfer in the IC60BA blend effectively turns off hole transfer from IC 60BA excitons to the host polymer, even while electron transfer from the polymer to the IC60BA remains active. Suppressed hole transfer from fullerene excitons is a potentially important consideration for materials design and device engineering of organic solar cells. The effect of modulating the driving force for charge separation via photoinduced hole transfer from fullerene excitons in polymer:fullerene solar cells is measured. Poor photoinduced hole transfer is identified as a major limiting factor for photocurrent generation in indene-C60-bis-adduct devices. These results provide a guide to materials design and device engineering for highly efficient organic solar cells.
KW - charge photogeneration
KW - charge separation
KW - excitonic solar cells
KW - hole transfer
KW - organic photovoltaics
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U2 - 10.1002/adfm.201201470
DO - 10.1002/adfm.201201470
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84872692154
SN - 1616-301X
VL - 23
SP - 1238
EP - 1249
JO - Advanced Functional Materials
JF - Advanced Functional Materials
IS - 10
ER -