Evidences of photocurrent generation by hole-exciton interaction at organic semiconductor interfaces

Abstract

The charge-exciton interaction at the donor/acceptor interface plays a significant role in the exciton dissociation processes, and thus influences the performance of organic solar cells. In this work, the evidences of photocurrent generation via hole-exciton interaction (HEI) at the organic semiconductor interface in organic solar cells, which is the counterpart of photocurrent generated by electron-exciton interaction, is demonstrated. A heterojunction, composed of copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) and fullerene (C60), is used to provide free holes that interact with the excitons supplied by perfluorinated hexadecafluorophthalo-cyaninatozinc (F16ZnPc). The fact that photocurrent generation via HEI is well evidenced by: (1) a short circuit current of 0.38 mA cm-2; (2) the jump of an external quantum efficiency (EQE) around 800 nm after adding a bias light; (3) the EQE variations under bias light of different wavelengths and light intensities; and (4) the superlinear dependence of the photocurrent on the light intensity.

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

2015

Faculty

Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

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Elsevier

School

Electron Science Research Institute

RAS ID

21504

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Li, P., Zhang, Y. J., Cai, L., Ding, B. F., Xiang, J., Wang, G., ... & Song, Q. L. (2015). Evidences of photocurrent generation by hole–exciton interaction at organic semiconductor interfaces. Organic Electronics, 26, 75-80. Available here

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10.1016/j.orgel.2015.07.024