Fundamentals of organic solar cells: A review on mobility issues and measurement methods

M Ghorab, A Fattah, M Joodaki - Optik, 2022 - Elsevier
In the past few years, there have been impressive breakthroughs to enhance the structure of
organic solar cells (OSCs) in order to improve the performance. Resulting in increment of the …

Theoretical perspective on transient photovoltage and charge extraction techniques

OJ Sandberg, K Tvingstedt, P Meredith… - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Transient photovoltage (TPV) is a technique frequently used to determine charge carrier
lifetimes in thin-film solar cells such as organic, dye-sensitized, and perovskite solar cells. As …

Requirements for making thick junctions of organic solar cells based on nonfullerene acceptors

M Nyman, OJ Sandberg, W Li, S Zeiske… - Solar …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic bulk‐heterojunction solar cells based on the newly developed nonfullerene electron
acceptors have the potential for very low‐cost energy production. However, to enable large …

Impact of a doping-induced space-charge region on the collection of photogenerated charge carriers in thin-film solar cells based on low-mobility semiconductors

OJ Sandberg, S Dahlström, M Nyman, S Wilken… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
Unintentional doping of the active layer is a source for lowered device performance in
organic solar cells. The effect of doping is to induce a space-charge region within the active …

A comprehensive review on potential of diffusion length enhancement to upraise perovskite solar cell performance

SS Bagade, PK Patel - Physica Scripta, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
To achieve efficient solar cells, an in-depth review on significance of diffusion length
enhancement is presented in this research work. We have focused on globally-adopted …

Effect of imbalanced charge transport on the interplay of surface and bulk recombination in organic solar cells

D Scheunemann, S Wilken, OJ Sandberg… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
Surface recombination has a major impact on the open-circuit voltage (V OC) of organic
photovoltaics. Here, we study how this loss mechanism is influenced by imbalanced charge …

Unified mobility model for diffusion-limited current in organic diodes based on Fermi-Dirac statistics

JX Sun, HC Yang, Y Li, HJ Cui - Physical Review Applied, 2021 - APS
The Fermi-Dirac statistics is adopted to consider degenerate effects in organic diodes. The
degenerate drift-diffusion equation is analytically solved under the uniform-electrical-field …

Extraction current transients for selective charge-carrier mobility determination in non-fullerene and ternary bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

S Dahlström, X Liu, Y Yan, OJ Sandberg… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The field of organic solar cells has recently gained broad research interest due to the
introduction of non-fullerene small-molecule acceptors. The rapid improvement in solar cell …

[HTML][HTML] Extraction current transients for mobility determination—A comparative study

S Dahlström, C Ahläng, K Björkström, S Forsblom… - AIP Advances, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we measure the hole mobility in the model polymer system poly (3-
hexylthiophene-2, 5-diyl) by using different measurement techniques. Our main purpose is …

Improved determination of the mobility and built-in voltage in asymmetric single-carrier devices

GAH Wetzelaer - Physical Review Applied, 2020 - APS
The steady-state charge-carrier mobility in semiconductors can be extracted from the space-
charge-limited current in single-carrier devices. However, in many cases, a built-in voltage is …