A general problem arising in computer simulations is the number of material and device parameters, which have to be determined by dedicated experiments and simulation-based parameter extraction. In this study we analyze measurements of the short-circuit current dependence on the active layer thickness and current-voltage curves in poly(3-hexylthiophene):[6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (P3HT:PCBM) based solar cells. We have identified a set of parameter values including dissociation parameters that describe the experimental data. The overall agreement of our model with experiment is good, however a discrepancy in the thickness dependence of the current-voltage curve questions the influence of the electric field in the dissociation process. In addition transient simulations are analyzed which show that a measurement of the turn-off photocurrent can be useful for estimating charge carrier mobilities.
@article{arxiv.0911.2885,
title = {Coupled opto-electronic simulation of organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells: parameter extraction and sensitivity analysis},
author = {R. Hausermann and E. Knapp and M. Moos and N. A. Reinke and T. Flatz and B. Ruhstaller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.2885},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Physics