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Effects of Recombination Order on Open-Circuit Voltage Decay Measurements of Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells

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  • Joachim Vollbrecht

    (Soft Matter Physics Group, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany)

  • Viktor V. Brus

    (Department of Physics, School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan 010000, Kazakhstan)

Abstract

Non-geminate recombination, as one of the most relevant loss mechanisms in organic and perovskite solar cells, deserves special attention in research efforts to further increase device performance. It can be subdivided into first, second, and third order processes, which can be elucidated by the effects that they have on the time-dependent open-circuit voltage decay. In this study, analytical expressions for the open-circuit voltage decay exhibiting one of the aforementioned recombination mechanisms were derived. It was possible to support the analytical models with experimental examples of three different solar cells, each of them dominated either by first (PBDBT:CETIC-4F), second (PM6:Y6), or third (irradiated CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 ) order recombination. Furthermore, a simple approach to estimate the dominant recombination process was also introduced and tested on these examples. Moreover, limitations of the analytical models and the measurement technique itself were discussed.

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  • Joachim Vollbrecht & Viktor V. Brus, 2021. "Effects of Recombination Order on Open-Circuit Voltage Decay Measurements of Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(16), pages 1-16, August.
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