Subphthalocyanines, subporphyrazines, and subporphyrins: Singular nonplanar aromatic systems

CG Claessens, D Gonzalez-Rodriguez… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION Porphyrins (Ps) 1, 2 and their best known synthetic analogues, the
phthalocyanines (Pcs; 2− 10 Chart 1) represent one of the most widely studied macrocyclic …

Exciton diffusion in organic photovoltaic cells

SM Menke, RJ Holmes - Energy & Environmental Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Exciton generation, migration, and dissociation are key processes that play a central role in
the design and operation of many organic optoelectronic devices. In organic photovoltaic …

8.4% efficient fullerene-free organic solar cells exploiting long-range exciton energy transfer

K Cnops, BP Rand, D Cheyns, B Verreet… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
In order to increase the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells, their absorption
spectrum should be broadened while maintaining efficient exciton harvesting. This requires …

Efficient ternary blend bulk heterojunction solar cells with tunable open-circuit voltage

PP Khlyabich, B Burkhart… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - ACS Publications
To explore the potential of ternary blend bulk heterojunction (BHJ) photovoltaics as a
general platform for increasing the attainable performance of organic solar cells, a model …

Tailored exciton diffusion in organic photovoltaic cells for enhanced power conversion efficiency

SM Menke, WA Luhman, RJ Holmes - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
Photoconversion in planar-heterojunction organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) is limited by a
short exciton diffusion length (LD) that restricts migration to the dissociating electron …

Systematic study of exciton diffusion length in organic semiconductors by six experimental methods

JDA Lin, OV Mikhnenko, J Chen, Z Masri… - Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Six experimental methods have been used to investigate the exciton diffusion length in
materials with systematic chemical modifications. We find that exciton diffusion length …

Direct Imaging of Anisotropic Exciton Diffusion and Triplet Diffusion Length<? format?> in Rubrene Single Crystals

P Irkhin, I Biaggio - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We visualize exciton diffusion in rubrene single crystals using localized photoexcitation and
spatially resolved detection of excitonic luminescence. We show that the exciton mobility in …

Investigation of energy transfer in organic photovoltaic cells and impact on exciton diffusion length measurements

WA Luhman, RJ Holmes - Advanced Functional Materials, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to engineer excitonic energy transfer processes has played an important role in
realizing high efficiency optoelectronic devices based on organic semiconductors. Energy …

Dependence of exciton diffusion length on crystalline order in conjugated polymers

M Sim, J Shin, C Shim, M Kim, SB Jo… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Exciton diffusion in organic semiconductors is crucial to the performance of organic solar
cells. Here, we measured the exciton diffusion length in poly (3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT) as a …

Ideal diode equation for organic heterojunctions. II. The role of polaron pair recombination

NC Giebink, BE Lassiter, GP Wiederrecht… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
In paper I [NC Giebink, GP Wiederrecht, MR Wasielewski, and SR Forrest, Phys. Rev. B 82,
155305 (2010) 10.1103/PhysRevB. 82.155305], we proposed that current transport in a …