Theoretical Modeling of the Optical and Electrical Processes in Polymeric Solar Cells

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Abstract

The elementary processes occurred in organic solar cell include optical absorption, excitation energy transfer, photoinduced charge transfer, charge transport, and charge collection at the electrodes. Even though modern quantum chemistry has achieved great success in electronic structure calculations, it is still not enough to describe these elementary processes at first-principles. We describe in this chapter our recent progresses toward quantitative theoretical understanding of the optical and electronic processes in organic photovoltaic materials, including optical absorption and emission spectra for conjugated oligomers, energy transfer in polymers, charge transport in organic semiconductors, and device modeling of heterojunction solar cells based on dynamic Monte Carlo simulation and the continuum model.

Keywords

Solar Cell Power Conversion Efficiency Charge Mobility Organic Solar Cell Polymer Solar Cell 
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Acknowledgments

The authors are indebted to Dr. Qian Peng and Dr. Yingli Niu for their contributions in the study of optical absorption/emission spectra and the excited state decays, and to Dr. Yuan Shang for his contribution to the continuum device model. The research in Shuai’s group has been funded the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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  1. 1.MOE Key Laboratory of Organic OptoElectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of ChemistryTsinghua UniversityBeijingChina
  2. 2.Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy MaterialsXiamen UniversityXiamenChina

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