Analytical expression for the current-voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells
An expression to describe the current-voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells is derived. The derivation is obtained by analytically solving the drift-diffusion model for organic BHJ solar cells with the assumption of uniform bimolecular recombination rate. The assum...
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| author | Inche Ibrahim, M.L. Ahmad, Z. Sulaiman, K. |
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| description | An expression to describe the current-voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells is derived. The derivation is obtained by analytically solving the drift-diffusion model for organic BHJ solar cells with the assumption of uniform bimolecular recombination rate. The assumption of uniform bimolecular recombination rate leads to somewhat inaccurate, for example, carrier densities as functions of the position inside the device. However, we show that this assumption should still produce an expression for the current as a function of applied voltage as if the actual bimolecular recombination rate is considered in the derivation. Applying this analytical expression to experimental current-voltage data enable us to directly extract and analyze, for example, the recombination loss of an organic BHJ solar cell as a function of applied voltage. |
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| spelling | um.eprints-128282015-02-18T06:13:19Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/12828/ Analytical expression for the current-voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells Inche Ibrahim, M.L. Ahmad, Z. Sulaiman, K. QC Physics An expression to describe the current-voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells is derived. The derivation is obtained by analytically solving the drift-diffusion model for organic BHJ solar cells with the assumption of uniform bimolecular recombination rate. The assumption of uniform bimolecular recombination rate leads to somewhat inaccurate, for example, carrier densities as functions of the position inside the device. However, we show that this assumption should still produce an expression for the current as a function of applied voltage as if the actual bimolecular recombination rate is considered in the derivation. Applying this analytical expression to experimental current-voltage data enable us to directly extract and analyze, for example, the recombination loss of an organic BHJ solar cell as a function of applied voltage. American Institute of Physics 2015-02-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://eprints.um.edu.my/12828/1/1.4908036.pdf Inche Ibrahim, M.L. and Ahmad, Z. and Sulaiman, K. (2015) Analytical expression for the current-voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells. AIP Advances, 5 (027115). ISSN 2158-3226, DOI https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4908036 <https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4908036>. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/adva/5/2/10.1063/1.4908036 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4908036 |
| spellingShingle | QC Physics Inche Ibrahim, M.L. Ahmad, Z. Sulaiman, K. Analytical expression for the current-voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells |
| title | Analytical expression for the current-voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells |
| title_full | Analytical expression for the current-voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells |
| title_fullStr | Analytical expression for the current-voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells |
| title_full_unstemmed | Analytical expression for the current-voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells |
| title_short | Analytical expression for the current-voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells |
| title_sort | analytical expression for the current voltage characteristics of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells |
| topic | QC Physics |
| url | http://eprints.um.edu.my/12828/1/1.4908036.pdf |
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