Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Slower carriers limit charge generation in organic semiconductor light-harvesting systems

  • Martin Stolterfoht,
  • Ardalan Armin,
  • Safa Shoaee,
  • Ivan Kassal,
  • Paul Burn,
  • Paul Meredith

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11944
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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In organic solar cells, the photogeneration of free charge carriers is limited by the dissociation of interfacial charge transfer states. Here, the authors study the impact of charge carrier mobilities in operational devices and show that the slowest charge carriers limit the dissociation of charge transfer states.