Open circuit voltage of organic solar cells: an in-depth review

NK Elumalai, A Uddin - Energy & Environmental Science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have developed progressively in efficiency over the last two
decades. Though it is promising, this technology is still far from realizing its full prospect …

Energetics of metal–organic interfaces: New experiments and assessment of the field

J Hwang, A Wan, A Kahn - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2009 - Elsevier
Considerable research and development means have been focused in the past decade on
organic semiconductor thin films and devices with applications to full color displays, flexible …

Relationship between energetic disorder and open-circuit voltage in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

JC Blakesley, D Neher - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2011 - APS
We simulate organic bulk heterojunction solar cells. The effects of energetic disorder are
incorporated through a Gaussian or exponential model of density of states. Analytical …

Open-circuit voltage in organic solar cells

B Qi, J Wang - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Open-circuit voltage (VOC) is the maximum voltage a solar cell can provide to an external
circuit, which is derived from the splitting of hole and electron quasi-Fermi levels. In …

An organic nanoparticle transistor behaving as a biological spiking synapse

F Alibart, S Pleutin, D Guérin… - Advanced Functional …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
It is now well recognized that electronic circuits based on the von Neuman paradigm are
unable to catch the behavior of the complex, real-world environment, as can biological …

Ideal diode equation for organic heterojunctions. I. Derivation and application

NC Giebink, GP Wiederrecht, MR Wasielewski… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
The current-voltage characteristics of organic heterojunctions (HJs) are often modeled using
the generalized Shockley equation derived for inorganic diodes. However, since this …

Unifying energetic disorder from charge transport and band bending in organic semiconductors

A Karki, GJAH Wetzelaer, GNM Reddy… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Characterizing the density of states (DOS) width accurately is critical in understanding the
charge‐transport properties of organic semiconducting materials as broader DOS …

Effects of Gaussian disorder on charge carrier transport and recombination in organic semiconductors

R Coehoorn, PA Bobbert - physica status solidi (a), 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, we discuss recent advances in our understanding of charge transport and
exciton generation in disordered organic semiconductors with a Gaussian DOS, with a focus …

How to find out the density of states in disordered organic semiconductors

JO Oelerich, D Huemmer, SD Baranovskii - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
We suggest a recipe on how to determine the density of states (DOS) in disordered organic
semiconductors from the measured dependence of the charge carrier mobility on the …

Effect of Palladium‐Tetrakis (Triphenylphosphine) Catalyst Traces on Charge Recombination and Extraction in Non‐Fullerene‐based Organic Solar Cells

N Schopp, VV Brus, J Lee, A Dixon… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The effect of the cross‐coupling catalyst tetrakis (triphenylphosphine) palladium (0)(Pd
(PPh3) 4) on the performance of a model organic bulk‐heterojunction solar cell composed of …