Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

The fate of electron–hole pairs in polymer:fullerene blends for organic photovoltaics

  • Martina Causa',
  • Jelissa De Jonghe-Risse,
  • Mariateresa Scarongella,
  • Jan C. Brauer,
  • Ester Buchaca-Domingo,
  • Jacques-E. Moser,
  • Natalie Stingelin,
  • Natalie Banerji

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12556
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Charge generation and transport are crucial to the performance of organic solar cells, but the mechanism remains controversial. Causa’ et al. show that the phase morphology of polymer:fullerene blends determines the exciton dissociation at femtoseconds, although the spatial separation can occur at picoseconds.