@article{KrausHeiberVaethetal.2016,
  author    = {Kraus, Hannes and Heiber, Michael C. and V{\"a}th, Stefan and Kern, Julia and Deibel, Carsten and Sperlich, Andreas and Dyakonov, Vladimir},
  title     = {Analysis of Triplet Exciton Loss Pathways in PTB7:PC\(_{71}\)BM Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells},
  series = {Scientific Reports},
  volume    = {6},
  journal   = {Scientific Reports},
  number    = {29158},
  doi       = {10.1038/srep29158},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-147413},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {A strategy for increasing the conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaics has been to increase the VOC by tuning the energy levels of donor and acceptor components. However, this opens up a new loss pathway from an interfacial charge transfer state to a triplet exciton (TE) state called electron back transfer (EBT), which is detrimental to device performance. To test this hypothesis, we study triplet formation in the high performing PTB7:PC\(_{71}\)BM blend system and determine the impact of the morphology-optimizing additive 1,8-diiodoctane (DIO). Using photoluminescence and spin-sensitive optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) measurements at low temperature, we find that TEs form on PC\(_{71}\)BM via intersystem crossing from singlet excitons and on PTB7 via EBT mechanism. For DIO blends with smaller fullerene domains, an increased density of PTB7 TEs is observed. The EBT process is found to be significant only at very low temperature. At 300 K, no triplets are detected via ODMR, and electrically detected magnetic resonance on optimized solar cells indicates that TEs are only present on the fullerenes. We conclude that in PTB7:PC\(_{71}\)BM devices, TE formation via EBT is impacted by fullerene domain size at low temperature, but at room temperature, EBT does not represent a dominant loss pathway.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Vaeth2016,
  author    = {V{\"a}th, Stefan Kilian},
  title     = {On the Role of Spin States in Organic Semiconductor Devices},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-141894},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {The present work addressed the influence of spins on fundamental processes in organic semiconductors. In most cases, the role of spins in the conversion of sun light into electricity was of particular interest. However, also the reversed process, an electric current creating luminescence, was investigated by means of spin sensitive measurements. In this work, many material systems were probed with a variety of innovative detection techniques based on electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. More precisely, the observable could be customized which resulted in the experimental techniques photoluminescence detected magnetic resonance (PLDMR), electrically detected magnetic resonance (EDMR), and electroluminescence detected magnetic resonance (ELDMR). Besides the commonly used continuous wave EPR spectroscopy, this selection of measurement methods yielded an access to almost all intermediate steps occurring in organic semiconductors during the conversion of light into electricity and vice versa. Special attention was paid to the fact that all results were applicable to realistic working conditions of the investigated devices, i.e. room temperature application and realistic illumination conditions.},
  subject      = {Organischer Halbleiter},
  language  = {en}
}