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While bulk heterojunctions (BHJ) promote charge separation through extensive donor\u2212acceptor (D\/A) intermixing, layer-by-layer (LbL) processing offers an alternative to control D\/A morphology. Although LbL active layers are frequently described as pseudo-bilayer, pseudo-BHJ, or quasi-planar heterojunction (PHJ) structures, the recombination consequences of the effective D\/A interfacial area have rarely been benchmarked quantitatively against both BHJ and a low-intermixing PHJ-like reference. Using a benchmark PM6\/L8-BO system, we establish BHJ\/LbL\/PHJ model devices and deduce recombination characteristics of LbL-processed active layers against BHJ and low-intermixing PHJ-like references. Non-radiative recombination loss analysis shows that PHJ achieves substantially lower loss (0.187 eV) than BHJ (0.248 eV) and LbL (0.249 eV), consistent with a reduced D\/A interfacial area. Device-architecture-dependent J\u2212V measurements are consistent with substantial acceptor penetration into the donor in LbL stacks, suggesting BHJ-like interfacial contact. Transient-absorption spectroscopy discloses the pronounced formation of the lowest-energy triplet state in BHJ and LbL films, strongly suppressed in the low-intermixing PHJ-like reference. This trend is consistent with an early-stage T1-mediated recombination pathway in the BHJ and LbL films, likely involving non-geminate recombination at D\/A interfaces. The results show that LbL devices behave distinctly from PHJ yet BHJ-like, contrary to the general assumption that the LbL architecture represents intermediate recombination behavior. Our findings suggest that simply minimizing the D\/A interfacial area is not universally practical for LbL OSCs, as achieving PHJ-like voltage-loss characteristics would require an extremely reduced interface, penalizing exciton harvesting when the exciton diffusion length is limited.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1021\/acsami.6c12131","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,4]],"date-time":"2026-08-04T14:39:05Z","timestamp":1785854345000},"page":"42769-42779","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Bulk Heterojunction-Like Triplet Recombination Pathways in Layer-by-Layer Organic Solar Cells"],"prefix":"10.1021","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Jeongmin","family":"Son","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology , , ,","place":["Ulsan, Republic of Korea, 44919"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hak-Won","family":"Nho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology , , ,","place":["Ulsan, Republic of Korea, 44919"]},{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) , ,","place":["Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 34141"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dongchan","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Ulsan , , ,","place":["Ulsan, Republic of Korea, 44610"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yeonjeong","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology , , ,","place":["Ulsan, Republic of Korea, 44919"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jaehyeong","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology , , ,","place":["Ulsan, Republic of Korea, 44919"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hye Won","family":"Cho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology , , ,","place":["Ulsan, Republic of Korea, 44919"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6855-833X","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Shinuk","family":"Cho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Ulsan , , ,","place":["Ulsan, Republic of Korea, 44610"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7114-8617","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Oh-Hoon","family":"Kwon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology , , ,","place":["Ulsan, Republic of Korea, 44919"]},{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) , ,","place":["Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 34141"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6595-4468","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Jin Young","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology , , ,","place":["Ulsan, Republic of Korea, 44919"]},{"name":"Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology , , ,","place":["Ulsan, Republic of Korea, 44919"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"316","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026081200070345800_cit1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"251","DOI":"10.1039\/B812502N","article-title":"Organic Photovoltaics","volume":"2","author":"Kippelen","year":"2009","journal-title":"Energy Environ. 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