Impact of Blend Morphology on Interface State Recombination in Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

This work is a reinvestigation of the impact of blend morphology and thermal annealing on the electrical performance of regioregular‐P3HT:PC₆₀BM bulk heterojunction organic solar cells. The morphological, structural, and electrical properties of the blend are experimentally investigated with atomic force microscopy, X‐ray diffraction, and time‐of‐flight measurements. Current–voltage characteristics of photodiode devices are measured in the dark and under illumination. Finally, the existence of exponential electronic band tails due to gap states is experimentally confirmed by measuring the device spectral response in the subband gap regime. This method reveals the existence of a large density of gap states, which is partially and systematically reduced by thermal annealing. When the band tails are properly accounted for in the drift and diffusion simulations, experimentally measured charge transport characteristics, under both dark and illuminated conditions and as a function of annealing time, can be satisfactorily reproduced. This work further confirms the critical impact of tails states on the performance of solar cells.     

硫化物钝化对InAs纳米线光学特性的影响

针对InAs纳米线表面氧化造成的发光效率低的问题,采用十八硫醇和硫化铵钝化了由化学气相沉积设备生长的闪锌矿结构的InAs纳米线。对硫化物钝化前后的InAs纳米线进行温度依赖的光致发光光谱测试。实验结果表明,十八硫醇和硫化铵钝化的InAs纳米线在25 K温度下的发光效率与未钝化的InAs纳米线相比分别提高了～6倍和～7倍,此外,可以在室温下探测到硫化铵钝化的InAs纳米线的光致发光,这为未来基于InAs纳米线的中红外纳米光子器件提供了可能性。     

Organic Heterocyclic Strategy for Precisely Regulating Electronic State of Palladium Interface to Boost Alcohol Oxidation

Exploring highly-efficient palladium (Pd)-based electrocatalysts for the alcohol oxidation reaction (AOR) is crucial yet challenging for chemists due to the vague Pd interface with an uncontrollable electronic environment. Herein, an organic heterocyclic strategy is used for the first time to modulate the electronic state of Pd electrocatalysts by anchoring Pd nanoparticles to conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) with varied S-, N-, O-, or S, N-heterocycles. Among these CMPs, the S, N-containing thiazole heterocyclic polymer SNC with Pd catalyst exhibits highly-efficient current densities of 1575.0 mA mg_Pd⁻¹ for methanol oxidation and 1071.0 mA mg_Pd⁻¹ for ethanol oxidation, which are among the highest performance in the heterocyclic modulated Pd systems and surpass the commercial Pd black catalyst. Detailed theory calculations suggest that although the furan (O-heterocycle) polymer OC has the strongest charge transfer (0.057 |e|) with the Pd cluster, the moderate electron transfer (0.041 |e|) of the Pd /SNC heterojunction with an S···N···Pd noncovalent interaction shows the best catalytic reaction kinetics. Moreover, the d-band of the Pd /SNC system is closer to the volcano vertex than its counterparts. These results indicate that appropriate electron transfer intensity regulation of Pd electronic state by well-defined heterocyclic structures may significantly improve AOR activity.     

用800nm表面态方法和低温方法结合吸收区的半导体可饱和吸收镜实现掺钛蓝宝石激光克尔镜锁模

研制了一种新型的80 0 nm布拉格反射镜型半导体可饱和吸收镜,其吸收区是低温方法和表面态方法相结合.用该吸收体实现了氩离子激光器泵浦的掺钛蓝宝石激光器被动锁模,脉冲宽度达到4 0 fs,光谱带宽为5 6 nm,后者意味着它可以支持2 0 fs的锁模.脉冲序列的重复率为97.5 MHz,泵浦源为4 .4 5 W下平均输出功率为30 0 m W.     

β-FeSi_2(n)/c-Si(p)HIT型太阳能电池的模拟与优化

运用afors-het软件对β-FeSi2(n)/a-Si(i)/c-Si(p)结构的太阳能电池进行模拟,依次讨论了本征层、发射层、界面态对电池性能的影响。结果表明:添加本征层电池性能提高,但随着本征层厚度的增加载流子收集率下降、串联电阻增大,造成电池光电转化效率下降;发射层厚度的增加使得载流子的收集率下降造成光电转化效率下降,同时发射层掺杂浓度增大虽然使得内建电场强度增大,但载流子的复合也会加大,最终使得电池性能保持稳定;界面态使得电池性能下降,为使电池获得较好性能,界面态密度应尽可能小于1011 cm–2·e V–1。通过优化,最终使得该结构的太阳能电池光电转化效率达到17.00%。     

Optical and electronic property tailoring by MoS2-polymer hybrid solar cell

The ternary blend system such as binary donor and an acceptor or binary acceptor and a donor offers a way to improve the power conversion efficiency of the polymer solar cells (PSCs) by enhancing optical properties and electrical properties. In this work, PTB7, PC₇₁BM and Molybdenum disulfide nano-sheet (MoS₂NS) ternary blend system were investigated as an active material for OPV. The optimized ternary blend system showed increment of 17% power conversion efficiency (PCE) from 6.98% to 8.18%. The origin of improved PCE mainly arises from the significant increment in J_SC and marginal change in V_OC and FF. This improved PCE is due to increased light harvesting and improved charge carrier mobility in the active matrix. The marginal enhancement in V_OC and FF was correlated with the density of trap states (DOS) obtained from capacitance measurement of the device. The optical absorption and energy transfer mechanism of the ternary blend film is explained by absorption and photoluminescence measurement respectively. Further, the conversion efficiency due to improved charge carrier transport was described by modified SCLC mobility measurements for electron and hole only devices. The obtained result suggests that presence of MoS₂NS along with PTB7:PC₇₁BM binary system play dual role like an improved charge transport layer as well as light harvesting.     

基于c-Si(P)衬底的a-Si/c-Si异质结模拟研究

本文中研究了影响 a-Si/c-Si 异质结界面复合的主要因素： 表面固定电荷 ,缺陷态载流子俘获界面： ,以及界面缺陷态密度 。当缺陷能级 接近c-Si本征能级,且 满足时,缺陷态复合中心复合速度达到最大。AFORS-HET 软件模拟显示, a-Si/c-Si界面能带不连续显著影响电池Voc、界面缺陷态密度大于1*1010 cm-2.eV-1时,界面态密度的增加会严重降低电池Voc,但其对电池电流密度影响不大。对于c-Si (P)/a-Si (P ) 结构异质结,C-Si衬底的势垒 和a-Si材料内的势垒 对降低c-Si (P)/a-Si (P ) 结构的接触电阻和界面复合速度,表现各不相同。     

A Multifunctional Blue‐Emitting Material Designed via Tuning Distribution of Hybridized Excited‐State for High‐Performance Blue and Host‐Sensitized OLEDs

Actualizing full singlet exciton yield via a reverse intersystem crossing from the high‐lying triplet state to singlet state, namely, “hot exciton” mechanism, holds great potential for high‐performance fluorescent organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs). However, incorporating comprehensive insights into the mechanism and effective molecular design strategies still remains challenging. Herein, three blue emitters (CNNPI, 2TriPE‐CNNPI, and 2CzPh‐CNNPI) with a distinct local excited (LE) state and charge‐transfer (CT) state distributions in excited states are designed and synthesized. They show prominent hybridized local and charge‐transfer (HLCT) states and aggregation‐induced emission enhancement properties. The “hot exciton” mechanism based on these emitters reveals that a balanced LE/CT distribution can simultaneously boost photoluminescence efficiency and exciton utilization. In particular, a nearly 100% exciton utilization is achieved in the electroluminescence (EL) process of 2CzPh‐CNNPI. Moreover, employing 2CzPh‐CNNPI as the emitter, emissive dopant, and sensitizing host, respectively, the EL performances of the corresponding nondoped pure‐blue, doped deep‐blue, and HLCT‐sensitized fluorescent OLEDs are among the most efficient OLEDs with a “hot exciton” mechanism to date. These results could shed light on the design principles for “hot exciton” materials and inspire the development of next‐generation high‐performance OLEDs.     

Influence of operation conditions on true-static DC characteristics and on electro-thermal transient states in silicon carbide Merged PiN Schottky diodes.

In this paper, measured and calculated non-isothermal DC characteristics of silicon carbide MPS devices are investigated, with special attention paid on critical parameters, such as maximum current and junction temperature at which a thermal runaway may occur. Electro-thermal transient states in single MPS devices (forward surge current tests) and in the simple Greatz rectifier are simulated and compared to measurements. Various electro-thermal models of SiC SBDs, with a simplified, effective procedure for calculations of junction temperature are proposed.     

Direct evidence for the electron–hole pair mechanism by studying the organic magneto-electroluminescence based on charge-transfer states

Organic magneto-electroluminescence (MEL) based on the charge-transfer (CT) states was investigated to clarify the electron-hole (e-h) pair mechanism for the organic magnetic field effects. The CT state is an ideal object because its emission is a direct intermolecular recombination process without forming intramolecular exciton. We found that the MEL of the CT states is not only greater than that of the exciton, but also exhibits almost no high-field decrease at low temperatures. Our results directly prove the e-h pair mechanism. Meanwhile, the transient electroluminescence measurements with and without magnetic fields confirm that magnetic field has no effect on the charge mobility but on the charge recombination process, implying the charge mobility-related mechanisms may be less dominant above the turn-on voltage.