Non-Radiative Recombination in Organic Solar Cells
Koen Vandewal a
a Hasselt University, Institute for Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC), Wetenschapspark, 1, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of nanoGe Spring Meeting 2022 (NSM22)
#OrgCD22. Charge Dynamics of State-of-the-art Organic Solar Cells
Online, Spain, 2022 March 7th - 11th
Organizers: Ardalan Armin and Safa Shoaee
Invited Speaker, Koen Vandewal, presentation 016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nsm.2022.016
Publication date: 7th February 2022

The currently best organic solar cells suffer from relatively large voltage losses due to non-radiative recombination as compared to inorganic or perovskite solar cells. Further enhancement of the power conversion efficiency to values over 20% will require a reduction of these losses, inevitably corresponding to an increase in the electroluminescence quantum efficiency of the devices.[1] For a large number of donor-acceptor combinations, we have observed that non-radiative voltage losses decrease with increasing charge-transfer-state energies, consistent with non-radiative decay being facilitated by a common high frequency molecular vibrational mode.[2] We further identify small molecule donor-acceptor blends with an optical gap in the visible spectral range, with strongly reduced non-radiative losses as compared to systems with a gap in the near infrared (NIR).[3] This highlights the possibility of a simultaneous occurrence of a high photovoltaic quantum efficiency as well as a high electroluminescence quantum efficiency, occurring in a single organic donor-acceptor blend. For photovoltaic blends with strong absorption in the NIR, we show that the lowest non-radiative decay rates correspond to systems with the narrowest emission linewidths and steepest absorption tails.[4]

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