Charge generation in organic solar cell materials studied by terahertz spectroscopy

M. Scarongella; J. C. Brauer; J. D. Douglas; J. M. J. Fréchet; N. Banerji

doi:10.1117/12.2187473

9 September 2015 Charge generation in organic solar cell materials studied by terahertz spectroscopy

M. Scarongella, J. C. Brauer, J. D. Douglas, J. M. J. Fréchet, N. Banerji

Proceedings Volume 9567, Organic Photovoltaics XVI; 95670M (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187473
Event: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We have investigated the photophysics in neat films of conjugated polymer PBDTTPD and its blend with PCBM using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. This material has very high efficiency when used in organic solar cells. We were able to identify a THz signature for bound excitons in neat PBDTTPD films, pointing to important delocalization in those excitons. Then, we investigated the nature and local mobility (orders of magnitude higher than bulk mobility) of charges in the PBDTTPPD:PCBM blend as a function of excitation wavelength, fluence and pump-probe time delay. At low pump fluence (no bimolecular recombination phenomena), we were able to observe prompt and delayed charge generation components, the latter originating from excitons created in neat polymer domains which, thanks to delocalization, could reach the PCBM interface and dissociate to charges on a time scale of 1 ps. The nature of the photogenerated charges did not change between 0.5 ps and 800 ps after photo-excitation, which indicated that the excitons split directly into relatively free charges on an ultrafast time scale.

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M. Scarongella, J. C. Brauer, J. D. Douglas, J. M. J. Fréchet, and N. Banerji "Charge generation in organic solar cell materials studied by terahertz spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 9567, Organic Photovoltaics XVI, 95670M (9 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187473

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