@article{HosseiniRolandKurpiersetal.2019,
  author    = {Hosseini, Seyed Mehrdad and Roland, Steffen and Kurpiers, Jona and Chen, Zhiming and Zhang, Kai and Huang, Fei and Armin, Ardalan and Neher, Dieter and Shoaee, Safa},
  title     = {Impact of Bimolecular Recombination on the Fill Factor of Fullerene and Nonfullerene-Based Solar Cells},
  series = {The journal of physical chemistry : C, Nanomaterials and interfaces},
  volume    = {123},
  journal   = {The journal of physical chemistry : C, Nanomaterials and interfaces},
  number    = {11},
  publisher = {American Chemical Society},
  address   = {Washington},
  issn      = {1932-7447},
  doi       = {10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b11669},
  pages     = {6823 -- 6830},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Power conversion efficiencies of donor/acceptor organic solar cells utilizing nonfullerene acceptors have now increased beyond the record of their fullerene-based counterparts. There remain many fundamental questions regarding nanomorphology, interfacial states, charge generation and extraction, and losses in these systems. Herein, we present a comparative study of bulk heterojunction solar cells composed of a recently introduced naphthothiadiazole-based polymer (NT812) as the electron donor and two different acceptor molecules, namely, [6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM)[70] and 3,9-bis(2-methylene-(3-(1,1-dicyanomethylene)-indanone))-5,5,11,11-tetrakis(4-hexylphenyl)-dithieno[2,3-d:2′,3′-d′]-s-indaceno[1,2-b:5,6-b′]dithiophene (ITIC). A comparison between the photovoltaic performance of these two types of solar cells reveals that the open-circuit voltage (Voc) of the NT812:ITIC-based solar cell is larger, but the fill factor (FF) is lower than that of the NT812:PCBM[70] device. We find the key reason behind this reduced FF in the ITIC-based device to be faster nongeminate recombination relative to the NT812:PCBM[70] system.},
  language  = {en}
}