Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Correct determination of charge transfer state energy from luminescence spectra in organic solar cells

  • Mathias List,
  • Tanmoy Sarkar,
  • Pavlo Perkhun,
  • Jörg Ackermann,
  • Chieh Luo,
  • Uli Würfel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05987-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The charge transfer state is the key to understand the open circuit voltage of organic solar cells and is commonly accessed by electroluminescence spectra. Here List et al. show that the reliable spectra can only be obtained by a correction of the device-specific out-coupling effect.