2015•Unpublished venueRequires access

Photo-excited carrier transport of CuPc/C60 organic thin-film solar cells

Nozomi Isobe, Takanori Miyake, Shun'Ichi Yamanaka, Tadashi Saitoh, M. Inada

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We prepare copper phthalocyanine (CuPc)/C60-based organic thin-film solar cells and investigate photo-excited carrier lifetime to reveal the carrier transport dynamics of the solar cells. The photo-excited carrier was generated by irradiation of pulsed laser light of Nd-YAG laser. The obtained carrier lifetime is much longer than that of estimated lifetime from the mobility of thin-film layers. This means the carrier transport cannot be described by a general carrier drift model. In addition, the carrier lifetime become short under white halogen light illumination. The results suggest that the trapping levels exist in organic layers..

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Key concepts: Excited state, Materials science, Optoelectronics, Carrier lifetime, Thin film, Organic semiconductor, Organic solar cell, Trapping