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The internal photoeffect in polythiopentacene (PTP) films is investigated. It is discovered that, in capacitor cells, the spectral dependence of the frontal photo-emf Vf correlates with the PTP absorption spectrum, while that of the back…
Understanding the dynamics of photoexcited carriers is essential for advancing photoelectronic device design. Photon absorption generates electron-hole pairs, and subsequent scatterings can induce ultrafast thermalization within a…
An effective method, performed adding external electric field (EEF) on CH3NH3PbI3-xClx (OPIC) perovskite layer during the annealing process, is proposed to improve the performance of the solar cell. By harmonizing EEF direction with the…
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 this lifetime is often incident light intensity…
As global demand for food and clean energy intensifies, agrivoltaic systems have emerged as a vital solution for land-use optimization. However, current designs overwhelmingly treat incident light as a classical photon flux, overlooking the…
In this study, we aim to improve our understanding of the doping mechanism involved in the polymer PBDTTT-c doped with(Mo(tfd-COCF3)3. We follow the evolution of the hole density with dopant concentration to highlight the limits of organic…
We investigate the electronic dynamics of a model organic photovoltaic (OPV) system consisting of polyphenylene vinylene (PPV) oligomers and a [6,6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methylester (PCBM) blend using a mixed molecular mechanics/quantum…
Models of organic bulk heterojunction photovoltaics which include the effect of spatially varying composition of donor/acceptor materials are developed and analyzed. Analytic expressions for the current-voltage relation in simplified cases…
The kinetics of the charge carrier recombination in dye molecule-doped multilayer organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) was quantified by transient electroluminescence (EL). Three sets of dye molecules, such as derivatives of naphthalimide…
Single-junction photovoltaic cells are considered to be efficient solar energy converters, but even ideal cells cannot exceed the their fundamental thermodynamic efficiency limit, first analysed by Shockley and Queisser (SQ). For moderated…
A combination of transient photovoltage (TPV), voltage dependent charge extraction (CE) and time delayed collection field (TDCF) measurements is applied to poly[[4,8-bis[(2-ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl]…
The use of a thin mixed layer consisting of an inert diluent material and a light emitting material between the hole-transport layer and electron-transport layer of organic light-emitting diodes leads to an increase in the external quantum…
Herein, we report on the synthesis and investigation of two triazino-isoquinoline tetrafluoroborate electrolytes as hole-blocking layers in methylammonium triiodide perovskite photovoltaic devices with fullerene electron extraction layer.…
This work presents a detailed analysis of the photothermionic-photovoltaic hybrid solar device. The electrons in this hybrid device gain energy from both the solar photons and thermophotons generated within the device, and hence the device…
Thin-film solar cells suffer from various types of recombination, of which leakage current usually dominates at lower voltages. Herein, we demonstrate first a three-order reduction of the shunt loss mechanism in planar methylammonium lead…
Lead halide perovskite-based photoactive layers are nowadays employed for a large number of optoelectronic applications, from solar cells to photodetectors and light-emitting diodes, because of their excellent absorption, emission and…
A modified detailed balance model is built to understand and quantify efficiency loss of perovskite solar cells. The modified model captures the light-absorption dependent short-circuit current, contact and transport-layer modified carrier…
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 layer, generally resulting in increased recombination…
We report an ultra long range energy transfer in a layered donor:spacer:acceptor structures, which consist of the typical organic photovoltaic material system of P3HT as the donor and PCBM as the acceptor. By varying the thicknesses of…
In this work, a hybrid integration of few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and ferroelectric polymer is designed to achieve passive control of optical properties in-situ. The electrical polarization in ferroelectric…