Spatial modeling of the 3D morphology of hybrid polymer-ZnO solar cells, based on electron tomography data

DOI10.1214/11-AOAS468zbMATH Open1228.62165arXiv1111.5145MaRDI QIDQ652360FDOQ652360

Authors: H. Hassfeld, L. J. A. Koster, S. D. Oosterhout, S. S. van Bavel, M. M. Wienk, R. A. J. Janssen, Ole Stenzel, Volker Schmidt, Ralf Thiedmann, Joachim Loos 

Publication date: 14 December 2011

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A spatial stochastic model is developed which describes the 3D nanomorphology of composite materials, being blends of two different (organic and inorganic) solid phases. Such materials are used, for example, in photoactive layers of hybrid polymer zinc oxide solar cells. The model is based on ideas from stochastic geometry and spatial statistics. Its parameters are fitted to image data gained by electron tomography (ET), where adaptive thresholding and stochastic segmentation have been used to represent morphological features of the considered ET data by unions of overlapping spheres. Their midpoints are modeled by a stack of 2D point processes with a suitably chosen correlation structure, whereas a moving-average procedure is used to add the radii of spheres. The model is validated by comparing physically relevant characteristics of real and simulated data, like the efficiency of exciton quenching, which is important for the generation of charges and their transport toward the electrodes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5145

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zbMATH Keywords

parameter estimationsimulationspatial statisticsmarked point processsegmentationmodel fittingstochastic geometrymodel validationadaptive thresholdingexciton quenchingpolymer solar cells

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inference from spatial processes (62M30) Applications of statistics in engineering and industry; control charts (62P30) Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Image analysis in multivariate analysis (62H35) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35)

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