Title
Quantifying the role of interfacial width on intermolecular charge recombination in block copolymer photovoltaics
Date Issued
01 September 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pennsylvania State University
Publisher(s)
John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Abstract
Block copolymers have the potential to control the interfacial and mesoscopic structure in the active layer of organic photovoltaics and consequently enhance device performance beyond systems which rely on physical mixtures. When utilized as the active layer, poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl)-block-poly((9,9-bis-(2-octyldodecyl)fluorene-2,7-diyl)-alt-(4,7-di(thiophene-2-yl)-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole)-5′,5-diyl) donor-acceptor block copolymers have recently demonstrated 3% power conversion efficiencies in devices. Nevertheless, the role of the interfacial structure on charge transfer processes remains unclear. Using density functional theory, we examined charge transfer rate constants in model interfaces of donor-acceptor block copolymers. Our results demonstrate that intermolecular charge recombination can depend on the interfacial breadth, where sharp interfaces (ca. 1 nm) suppress intermolecular charge recombination by orders of magnitude.
Start page
1224
End page
1230
Volume
53
Issue
17
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biorremediación, Biotecnologías de diagnóstico en la gestión ambiental
Geociencias, Multidisciplinar
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84937642823
Source
Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics
ISSN of the container
08876266
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