Abstract
The charge generation and recombination dynamics in fullerene-attached poly(3-hexythiophene) (P3HT)-based diblock copolymer were studied in comparison with those in blend films of P3HT and a fullerene derivative (PCBM) in order to understand the potential advantage of diblock copolymer-based polymer solar cells. Upon photoexcitation, P3HT singlet excitons are promptly converted to P3HT polarons with a time constant of ∼30 ps in both P3HT-PCBM diblock copolymer and P3HT/PCBM blend films. This similar charge generation dynamics is indicative of analogous phase-separated morphology both in these films on a scale of nanometers. After the charge generation, a part of polarons in disorder phases geminately recombine to the ground state in diblock copolymer films, while no geminate recombination is observed in blend films. This geminate recombination loss is probably due to defects of phase-separated structures in diblock copolymer films. On the other hand, charge carrier lifetime is as long as 15 μs in diblock ...
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