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Integrating a Triplet-triplet Annihilation Up-conversion System to Enhance Dye-sensitized Solar Cell Response to Sub-bandgap Light
Published on: September 12, 2014
When the Triplet State Doesn't Matter: Insights into Its Impact on V OC
Mohammad Saeed Shadabroo1, Nurlan Tokmoldin2, Atul Shukla1
1Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
Abstract:
Organic solar cell efficiency, exceeding 20%, is limited by recombination losses from singlet and triplet charge-transfer (CT) states and local triplet excitons, impacting open-circuit voltage (V ). Using PM6:o-IDTBR, a very low nonradiative voltage loss, ΔV = 160 mV, is achieved, despite the presence of triplet excitons (6 × 1015 cm-3). In employing the present system as a model exemplar, we elucidate the circumstance wherein, if the triplet lifetime surpasses the lifetime of the CT decay, the dissociation of triplet excitons to the CT state emerges as a feasible process. This, in turn, serves to reduce the manifestation of an additional loss channel from the T1 state and minimizes losses from T1. In PM6:o-IDTBR, the long triplet lifetime (10 μs) enables dissociation of the triplet state and limits the triplet-mediated recombination to ∼10%.
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