Determination of Surface Recombination Velocities at Contacts in Organic Semiconductor Devices Using Injected Carrier Reservoirs

Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Feb 17;118(7):076601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.076601. Epub 2017 Feb 15.

Abstract

A method to determine surface recombination velocities at collecting contacts in interface-limited organic semiconductor devices, based on the extraction of injected carrier reservoirs in a single-carrier sandwich-type structure, is presented. The analytical framework is derived and verified with drift-diffusion simulations. The method is demonstrated on solution-processed organic semiconductor devices with hole-blocking TiO_{2}/organic and SiO_{2}/organic interfaces, relevant for solar cell and transistor applications, respectively.