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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 118, Issue 20, Pages 10670-10676Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp502381j
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-1125845]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1311770] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We have probed photoinduced charge separation dynamics in organic semiconductor thin films and at their interfaces by femtosecond time-resolved second harmonic generation (TR-SHG), using the model systems of fullerene (C-70) thin films and copper phthalocyanine (CuPc)/C-70 interfaces. In neat C-70 thin films, the formation of an internal electric field on a similar to 10-ps time scale following photoexcitation is attributed to the photo-Dember effect, namely, charge separation resulting from a gradient in excitation density and the differential electron/hole mobility. When an ultrathin film of the electron donor CuPc was deposited on top of the C-70 film, an additional interfacial charge separation channel occurring on the ultrafast time scale of similar to 0.1 ps was observed. We discuss how SHG fields from different origins can interfere to give the overall transient response.
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