TY - CHAP A1 - Philip, Shine A1 - Martinez, Elias A1 - Müller, Klaus A1 - Kunst, Marinus A1 - Schmeißer, Dieter T1 - Time resolved microwave conductivity measurements of Bulk Heterojunction solar cells T2 - Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, Reihe 6, Bd. 46 N2 - The time resolved microwave conductivity (TRMC) method was used in order to study the generation and decay kinetics of charge carriers in the Bulk Heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. The charge carriers were generated with 532nm laser pulses of 10ns FWHM (Full Width at Half Maximum) induced in the cells. The BHJ solar cells used for the measurements had a photoactive layer consisting of a mixture of Poly (3-Hexylthiophene) P3HT and Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) which was spin coated onto Indium tin oxide (ITO)/glass substrates. In the field of Organic photovoltaic blends, TRMC method is introduced as a new method of direct investigation of the charge carrier lifetime as well as the charge carrier mobility and we were successful in studying the charge carrier lifetime of the reference BHJ solar cells. We also studied the influence of aligned ferroelectric fields on the charge separation in BHJ solar cells. As ferroelectric material, we used the copolymer Poly (vinylidene fluoride - trifluoroethylene) P(VDF-TrFE). Y1 - 2011 UR - http://www.dpg-verhandlungen.de/year/2011/conference/dresden/part/ds/session/42/contribution/31 SN - 0420-0195 SP - S. 301 PB - Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft CY - Bad Honnef ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Philip, Shine A1 - Müller, Klaus A1 - Richter, Matthias A1 - Kunst, Marinus A1 - Schmeißer, Dieter T1 - Study of excited states and a model for exciton-polaron interaction in P3HT T2 - Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, Reihe 6, Bd. 47 N2 - Organic semiconductors efficiently harvest light in the region of the solar spectrum due to a high absorption/extinction coefficient.In our work we study the electronic structure and the charge carrier dynamics of polymeric organic semiconductor regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophen-2,5-diyl) (P3HT), an ideal p-type semiconductor and a widely used conjugated polymer, and blends with the fullerene derivative phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM), an electron acceptor material. The study was done with the help of time resolved microwave conductivity (TRMC) for contactless investigation of bulk carrier dynamics, optical spectroscopy, ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy(UPS) and high resolution X-ray absorption spectroscopy(XAS) which investigates excited states of rr-P3HT. From the data obtained we could infer the positions of the valence and conduction band, the existence of two excitons as well as the co-existence of one dimensional and two dimensional polarons. Based on our spectroscopic data we propose a model in which the scattering of virtual polarons and excitons are shown to create mobile polaronic charge carriers. Y1 - 2012 UR - http://www.dpg-verhandlungen.de/year/2012/conference/berlin/part/ds/session/44/contribution/31 SN - 0420-0195 PB - Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft CY - Bad Honnef ER -