Light harvesting for organic photovoltaics

GJ Hedley, A Ruseckas, IDW Samuel - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of organic photovoltaics has developed rapidly over the last 2 decades, and small
solar cells with power conversion efficiencies of 13% have been demonstrated. Light …

“Hot or cold”: how do charge transfer states at the donor–acceptor interface of an organic solar cell dissociate?

H Bässler, A Köhler - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Electron transfer from an excited donor to an acceptor in an organic solar cell (OSC) is an
exothermic process, determined by the difference in the electronegativities of donor and …

The impact of driving force on electron transfer rates in photovoltaic donor–acceptor blends

AJ Ward, A Ruseckas, MM Kareem… - Advanced …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201405623 between the donor and acceptor in bulk heterojunctions
formed by blending donor and acceptor molecules, depends on blend morphology and …

Charge‐Selective, Narrow‐Gap Indium Arsenide Quantum Dot Layer for Highly Stable and Efficient Organic Photovoltaics

Y Park, SY Bae, T Kim, S Park, JT Oh… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade has seen a dramatic surge in the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of next‐
generation solution‐processed thin‐film solar cells rapidly closing the gap in PCE of …

Förster resonance energy transfer and energy cascade in broadband photodetectors with ternary polymer bulk heterojunction

WL Xu, B Wu, F Zheng, XY Yang, HD Jin… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
With the purpose to extend the photoresponse region of the photodetector based on poly (3-
hexylthiophene)/[6, 6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (P3HT/PC70BM) host system, a …

Does Excess Energy Assist Photogeneration in an Organic Low‐Bandgap Solar Cell?

T Hahn, J Geiger, X Blase, I Duchemin… - Advanced Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The field dependence of the photocurrent in a bilayer assembly is measured with the aim to
clarify the role of excess photon energy in an organic solar cell comprising a polymeric …

Hole delocalization as a driving force for charge pair dissociation in organic photovoltaics

AB Matheson, A Ruseckas, SJ Pearson… - Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Charge carrier photogeneration is studied in photovoltaic blends of the conjugated polymer
PTB7 with the electron acceptor PC71BM at low excitation densities using broadband …

Understanding the free energy barrier and multiple timescale dynamics of charge separation in organic photovoltaic cells

Y Yan, L Song, Q Shi - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
By employing several lattice model systems, we investigate the free energy barrier and real-
time dynamics of charge separation in organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. It is found that the …

Origin of charge separation at organic photovoltaic heterojunctions: a mesoscale quantum mechanical view

M Casalegno, R Pastore, J Idé, R Po… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The high efficiency of charge generation within organic photovoltaic blends apparently
contrasts with the strong “classical” attraction between newly formed electron–hole pairs …

Triplet exciton dissociation and electron extraction in graphene-templated pentacene observed with ultrafast spectroscopy

TJ McDonough, L Zhang, SS Roy, NM Kearns… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We compare the ultrafast dynamics of singlet fission and charge generation in pentacene
films grown on glass and graphene. Pentacene grown on graphene is interesting because it …