Abstract
Energy disorder reduces the achievable open-circuit voltage in organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells. Here the effect of disorder on charge carrier recombination flux is numerically modeled. The recombination current follows an exponential dependence on voltage (Fermi level splitting) parameterized by β (inverse of the diode ideality factor), which reduces the power conversion efficiency through lower fill factors. β-Parameter approaches unity (Boltzmann approximation) at room temperature only in the case of weak disorder (σ≈50meV). For larger disorder values (σ⩾100meV) usually encountered in real devices, a huge reduction in β (open-circuit voltage, and fill factor) is predicted following a relationship as β∝lnσ−1.
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