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dc.contributor.authorC. Nikolis, Vasileios
dc.contributor.authorMischok, Andreas
dc.contributor.authorSiegmund, Bernhard
dc.contributor.authorKublitski, Jonas
dc.contributor.authorJia, Xiangkun
dc.contributor.authorBenduhn, Johannes
dc.contributor.authorHörmann, Ulrich
dc.contributor.authorNeher, Dieter
dc.contributor.authorGather, Malte Christian
dc.contributor.authorSpoltore, Donato
dc.contributor.authorVandewal, Koen
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-20T14:30:05Z
dc.date.available2019-08-20T14:30:05Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-16
dc.identifier.citationC. Nikolis , V , Mischok , A , Siegmund , B , Kublitski , J , Jia , X , Benduhn , J , Hörmann , U , Neher , D , Gather , M C , Spoltore , D & Vandewal , K 2019 , ' Strong light-matter coupling for reduced photon energy losses in organic photovoltaics ' , Nature Communications , vol. 10 , 3706 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11717-5en
dc.identifier.issn2041-1723
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 258614592
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: b45cda56-8a05-4c43-a023-39ffbc9058f6
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-4857-5562/work/60888075
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-4725-7404/work/60888299
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85070842866
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000481604300012
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/18340
dc.descriptionFunding: Volkswagen Foundation (no.93404) (MCG), individual fellowship of the DeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft (404587082) (AM).en
dc.description.abstractStrong light-matter coupling can re-arrange the exciton energies in organic semiconductors. Here, we exploit strong coupling by embedding a fullerene-free organic solar cell (OSC) photo-active layer into an optical microcavity, leading to the formation of polariton peaks and a red-shift of the optical gap. At the same time, the open-circuit voltage of the device remains unaffected. This leads to reduced photon energy losses for the low-energy polaritons and a steepening of the absorption edge. While strong coupling reduces the optical gap, the energy of the charge-transfer state is not affected for large driving force donor-acceptor systems. Interestingly, this implies that strong coupling can be exploited in OSCs to reduce the driving force for electron transfer, without chemical or microstructural modifications of the photo-active layer. Our work demonstrates that the processes determining voltage losses in OSCs can now be tuned, and reduced to unprecedented values, simply by manipulating the device architecture.
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dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectT Technologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
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dc.titleStrong light-matter coupling for reduced photon energy losses in organic photovoltaicsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Organic Semiconductor Centreen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Sir James Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosisen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Biomedical Sciences Research Complexen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biophotonicsen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11717-5
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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