Charge photogeneration in organic solar cells

TM Clarke, JR Durrant - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
In recent years, organic solar cells utilizing π-conjugated polymers have attracted
widespread interest in both the academic and, increasingly, the commercial communities …

Device physics of polymer: fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

PWM Blom, VD Mihailetchi, LJA Koster… - Advanced …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Plastic solar cells bear the potential for large‐scale power generation based on materials
that provide the possibility of flexible, lightweight, inexpensive, efficient solar cells. Since the …

The role of driving energy and delocalized states for charge separation in organic semiconductors

AA Bakulin, A Rao, VG Pavelyev, PHM van Loosdrecht… - Science, 2012 - science.org
The electron-hole pair created via photon absorption in organic photoconversion systems
must overcome the Coulomb attraction to achieve long-range charge separation. We show …

Climatic niche shifts are rare among terrestrial plant invaders

B Petitpierre, C Kueffer, O Broennimann, C Randin… - Science, 2012 - science.org
The assumption that climatic niche requirements of invasive species are conserved between
their native and invaded ranges is key to predicting the risk of invasion. However, this …

Time-resolved spectroscopic investigation of charge trap** in carbon nitrides photocatalysts for hydrogen generation

R Godin, Y Wang, MA Zwijnenburg… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Carbon nitride (g-C3N4) as a benchmark polymer photocatalyst is attracting significant
research interest because of its visible light photocatalytic performance combined with good …

Charge carrier recombination in organic solar cells

CM Proctor, M Kuik, TQ Nguyen - Progress in Polymer Science, 2013 - Elsevier
Solution deposited bulk heterojunction organic solar cells are viewed as one of the most
promising alternative energy sources because of their ease of processing and their potential …

Hot charge-transfer excitons set the time limit for charge separation at donor/acceptor interfaces in organic photovoltaics

AE Jailaubekov, AP Willard, JR Tritsch, WL Chan… - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
Photocurrent generation in organic photovoltaics (OPVs) relies on the dissociation of
excitons into free electrons and holes at donor/acceptor heterointerfaces. The low dielectric …

Ultrafast electron dynamics in solar energy conversion

CS Ponseca Jr, P Chábera, J Uhlig, P Persson… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Electrons are the workhorses of solar energy conversion. Conversion of the energy of light to
electricity in photovoltaics, or to energy-rich molecules (solar fuel) through photocatalytic …

Charge carrier formation in polythiophene/fullerene blend films studied by transient absorption spectroscopy

H Ohkita, S Cook, Y Astuti, W Duffy… - Journal of the …, 2008 - ACS Publications
We report herein a comparison of the photophysics of a series of polythiophenes with
ionization potentials ranging from 4.8 to 5.6 eV as pristine films and when blended with 5 …

Compositional and electric field dependence of the dissociation of charge transfer excitons in alternating polyfluorene copolymer/fullerene blends

D Veldman, O Ipek, SCJ Meskers… - Journal of the …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The electro-optical properties of thin films of electron donor− acceptor blends of a fluorene
copolymer (PF10TBT) and a fullerene derivative (PCBM) were studied. Transmission …