Optical and Electronic Contributions in Double‐Heterojunction Organic Thin‐Film Solar Cells

H. Hänsel, Heiko Zettl, Georg Krausch, Roman Kisselev, Mukundan Thelakkat, Hans‐Werner Schmidt

Advanced Materials · 2003 · 112 citations · 19 references

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Combinatorial studies of organic thin‐film photovoltaic cells (see Figure) can identify the separate optical and electronic contributions to the photocurrent. A second charge‐transfer zone is proposed to explain the observed augmentation of the short‐circuit current induced by an additional TiO 2 layer. The ratio of the exciton diffusion lengths in copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) and a perylene dye (DMPTI) is estimated to be ≈ 8:5.

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