Photophysics of Organic Donor:Acceptor Blends with Low Energetic Offsets for Solar Cell Applications
Natalie Banerji a
a Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of nanoGe Spring Meeting 2022 (NSM22)
#StEffOPV22. Novel concepts for highly stable and efficient organic solar cells
Online, Spain, 2022 March 7th - 11th
Organizers: Vida Engmann, Morten Madsen and Jeff Kettle
Invited Speaker, Natalie Banerji, presentation 205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nsm.2022.205
Publication date: 7th February 2022

Organic conjugated materials have many favourable properties that make them interesting for a variety of electronic applications. The aim of my group is to understand the fundamental processes underlying their functionality. We use ultrafast spectroscopic techniques, such as transient absorption (TA) and time-domain terahertz (TD-THz) spectroscopies, to investigate charge carriers in organic semiconductors. While femtosecond TA measurements bring insights to the nature and evolution of the photoexcited species, we use TD-THz spectroscopy to gain information about the charge transport properties on the nanoscale. After presenting an overview of our experimental techniques, I will show results about charge generation in highly efficient solar cell materials based on organic polymer:fullerene [1] polymer:non-fullerene blends [2] with negligible driving force for interfacial charge transfer. Efficiencies beyond 18% have recently been achieved by combining low bandgap conjugated polymers with small-molecule non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). I will discuss how charge generation and recombination processes depend on parameters such as the charge transfer driving force, the short-range charge mobility and the morphology.

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