Influence of polymer ionization potential on the open-circuit voltage of hybrid polymer/TiO2 solar cells
- 4 February 2008
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 92 (5), 053308
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2840608
Abstract
We report studies of the dependence of the open-circuit voltage of polymer/titanium dioxide hybrid devices on the ionization potential of the polymer . Once corrected for differences in photocarrier generation by the polymers, the measured values vary linearly with the polymer , with a slope of . This behavior agrees with recent studies of polymer/fullerene photovoltaic devices and is consistent with the hypothesis that of an organic donor-acceptor solar cell is limited by the energy difference between the highest occupied molecular orbital of the donor (in this case, the polymer) and the lowest unoccupied electronic level of the acceptor (in this case, the conduction band edge of the ).
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