Type of Polaron Recombination under Short Circuit Conditions [Update]

6. May 2010

Eagle (?) in the EvergladesAs promised, here a glimpse of why I believe that recombination in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells under short circuit conditions (and also at Voc) is not necessarily monomolecular.

Sometimes, the short circuit current density vs light intensity is measured, and from the linear scaling a dominant monomolecular recombination is concluded. In (partial) answer, we have performed some relevant device simulations (thanx to wapf). In short, we varied the generation of free charges over four orders of magnitude, assuming different polaron recombination mechanisms.

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Critical View

3. May 2010

on OPV: read the story on RenewableEnerygWorld.com:

Is Organic PV the Future of Solar?.

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