Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Anatomy of the energetic driving force for charge generation in organic solar cells

  • Kyohei Nakano,
  • Yujiao Chen,
  • Bo Xiao,
  • Weining Han,
  • Jianming Huang,
  • Hiroyuki Yoshida,
  • Erjun Zhou,
  • Keisuke Tajima

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10434-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Understanding the energetic driving force is important for optimizing the performance of organic solar cells. Here Nakano et al. suggest that the dominant driving force is the energy difference between the singlet excited state and the charge transfer state after assessing 16 material combinations.