In this paper,we investigated the recombination dynamics of photogenerated charge carriers in a poly(3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT):[6,6]-phenyl-C 61-butyric acid methyl ester(PC 61 BM) blend system with donor-acceptor ratio of 1:1 before and after solvent annealing treatment.The technique of transient photocurrent and photovoltage measurements were used,and charge carriers were photogenerated by a 7 ns laser pulse at room temperature(298 K).In transient photocurrent measurement,we observed some differences in the saturation extracted charge in P3HT:PCBM solar cells with different power efficiencies.In addition,the bimolecular recombination coefficient is found to be 3.5×10-13 cm 3 s-1 for annealed devices,while 9.5×10-12 cm3 s-1 for as-cast devices.In the transient photovoltage measurement,we found that the photovoltage decay can be fitted by power-law equation at long time scale.The exponent parameter is 2.6 for annealed devices,which can be described as trap-free bimolecular recombination;is 1.76 for as-cast device due to the trap-limited bimolecular recombination.These experimental results indicate that the nanomorphology of active layer indeed have influence on charge carriers dynamics in P3HT:PCBM blend systems.
